The role of coping with social stressors in the development of depressive symptoms: Gender differences

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-406

  Calvete, Esther ^a   Camara, María ^a   Estevez, Ana ^a   Villardón, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Coping; Depression; Gender; Social stressors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPAIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79957665865     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2010.515982     Document Type: Article

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