Low Sense of Coherence (SOC) is a mirror of general anxiety and persistent depressive symptoms in adolescent girls - a cross-sectional study of a clinical and a non-clinical cohort

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Henje Blom, Eva C ^a   Serlachius, Eva ^a   Larsson, Jan Olov ^a   Theorell, Töres ^b   Ingvar, Martin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; COHORT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SWEDEN;

EID: 77953245960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-58     Document Type: Article

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