Pathways to Childhood Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Social, Cognitive, and Genetic Risk Factors

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1402-1414

  Lau, Jennifer Y F ^a,b   Rijsdijk, Frühling ^a   Gregory, Alice M ^a,c   McGuffin, Peter ^a   Eley, Thalia C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attributional style; depressive symptoms; genetic risk; multifactorial model; social risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUNISHMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TWINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUNISHMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WALES;

EID: 36448965250     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1402     Document Type: Article

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