Life event dimensions of loss, humiliation, entrapment, and danger in the prediction of onsets of major depression and generalized anxiety

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 789-796

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b   Hettema, John M ^a   Butera, Frank ^a   Gardner, Charles O ^a   Prescott, Carol A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0042655450     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.8.789     Document Type: Article

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