Adverse life events and emotional and behavioural problems in adolescence: The role of coping and emotion regulation

Stress and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 360-368

  Flouri, Eirini ^a   Mavroveli, Stella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescence; adverse life events; coping; emotion regulation; emotional and behavioural problems

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADVERSE LIFE EVENTS; COPING; EMOTION REGULATION; EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84889687402     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2478     Document Type: Article

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