Social isolation, loneliness and depression in young adulthood: a behavioural genetic analysis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 339-348

  Matthews, Timothy ^a   Danese, Andrea ^a,b,c   Wertz, Jasmin ^a   Odgers, Candice L ^d   Ambler, Antony ^a   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a,e   Arseneault, Louise ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural genetics; Depression; Loneliness; Social isolation; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DEPRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TWINS; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

DEPRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957535860     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1178-7     Document Type: Article

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