Higher cognitive ability buffers stress-related depressive symptoms in adolescent girls

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-109

  Riglin, Lucy ^a   Collishaw, Stephan ^b   Shelton, Katherine H ^b   McManus, I C ^a   Ng Knight, Terry ^a   Sellers, Ruth ^b   Thapar, Ajay K ^b   Frederickson, Norah ^a   Rice, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84940648636     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579415000310     Document Type: Article

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