Moderate Childhood Stress Buffers Against Depressive Response to Proximal Stressors: A Multi-Wave Prospective Study of Early Adolescents

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1403-1413

  Shapero, Benjamin G ^a   Hamilton, Jessica L ^a   Stange, Jonathan P ^a   Liu, Richard T ^b   Abramson, Lyn Y ^c   Alloy, Lauren B ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuated stress response; Buffering; Depression; Early life stress; Resilience; Steeling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84944279863     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-015-0021-z     Document Type: Article

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