Association between depressive symptoms and negative dependent life events from late childhood to adolescence

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1385-1400

  Johnson, Daniel P ^a   Whisman, Mark A ^a   Corley, Robin P ^a   Hewitt, John K ^a   Rhee, Soo Hyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Depression; Latent trajectories; Life events; Stress generation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 84867861294     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-012-9642-7     Document Type: Article

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