Cognitions and depressive symptoms among ethnic minority adolescents

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 578-591

  Kennard, Betsy D ^a   Stewart, Sunita Mahtani ^a   Hughes, Jennifer L ^a   Patel, Puja G ^a   Emslie, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cognitive errors; Cognitive model; Depression; Ethnic minorities; Hopelessness; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; TEXAS;

EID: 33747459616     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.3.578     Document Type: Article

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