Coping with social stress: Implications for psychopathology in young adolescent girls

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1159-1174

  Sontag, Lisa M ^a   Graber, Julia A ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^b   Warren, Michelle P ^c  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coping; Internalizing; Peer stress; Pubertal timing

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PEER GROUP; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 58149459658     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-008-9239-3     Document Type: Article

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