The role of children's negative attributions on depressive symptoms: An inherited characteristic or a product of the early environment

Developmental Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 569-578

  Lau, Jennifer Y F ^a   Belli, Stefano D ^a   Gregory, Alice M ^b   Napolitano, Maria ^c   Eley, Thalia C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

CHILD; DEPRESSION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84862694154     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01152.x     Document Type: Article

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