Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: An 8-year longitudinal study

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 493-501

  Qualter, Pamela ^a   Brown, Stephen L ^b   Munn, Penny ^c   Rotenberg, Ken J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Children; Chronic loneliness; Depression; Depressive symptoms; Enduring loneliness; Loneliness; Longitudinal study; Stability of loneliness; Transient loneliness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LONELINESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANCY; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; SYMPTOM; TEACHER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77953650411     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-009-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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