Academic performance, externalizing disorders and depression: 26,000 adolescents followed into adulthood

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 977-986

  Sörberg Wallin, Alma ^a   Koupil, Ilona ^a,b   Gustafsson, Jan Eric ^c   Zammit, Stanley ^d,e   Allebeck, Peter ^a   Falkstedt, Daniel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Cohort study; Depression; Externalizing disorders; Life course studies

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SWEDEN; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85061696236     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-019-01668-z     Document Type: Article

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