Maternal criticism and adolescent depressive and generalized anxiety disorder symptoms: A 6-year longitudinal community study

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 755-766

  Nelemans, Stefanie A ^a   Hale III, William W ^a   Branje, Susan J T ^a   Hawk, Skyler T ^a   Meeus, Wim H J ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anxiety; Cross lagged panel model; Depression; Longitudinal; Parental criticism (Expressed emotion)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING;

EID: 84903521602     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9817-x     Document Type: Article

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