Testing the vulnerability and scar models of self-esteem and depressive symptoms from adolescence to middle adulthood and across generations

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 236-247

  Steiger, Andrea E ^a   Fend, Helmut A ^a   Allemand, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Depressive symptoms; Intergenerational transmission; Life span development; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84925848570     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038478     Document Type: Article

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