The Responses to Stress Questionnaire: Construct validity and prediction of depressive and social anxiety symptoms in a sample of Chinese adolescents

Stress and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-249

  Xiao, Jing ^a   Yao, Shuqiao ^a   Zhu, Xiongzhao ^a   Zhang, Chenchen ^a   Auerbach, Randy P ^b   McWhinnie, Chad M ^b   Abela, John R Z ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxious symptoms; Coping; Depressive symptoms; Reliability; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RESPONSES TO STRESS QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 77957934486     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1291     Document Type: Article

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