Social Coping by Masking? Parental Support and Peer Victimization as Mediators of the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Expressive Suppression in Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1628-1642

  Larsen, Junilla K ^a   Vermulst, Ad A ^a   Eisinga, Rob ^a   English, Tammy ^b   Gross, James J ^b   Hofman, Elin ^a   Scholte, Ron H J ^a   Engels, Rutger C M E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Emotion regulation; Parents; Peers; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869089447     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9782-7     Document Type: Article

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