Gender differences in the association between maternal depressed mood and child depressive phenomena from grade 3 through grade 10

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 815-826

  Cortes, Rebecca C ^a   Fleming, Charles B ^a,b   Catalano, Richard F ^a,b   Brown, Eric C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Social Development Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent depressive phenomena; Gender; Maternal depressed mood; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749511421     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-006-9083-0     Document Type: Article

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