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The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether male and female adolescents experience different levels of stressful events and report different levels of internalizing symptoms over the age range from 11 to 20 years. The secondary goal was to determine whether females appraise events as more intensely stressful than males. Ouestionnaire measures of stress frequency and intensity, and internalizing (ie, depression, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, and self-esteem) were obtained from 1012 boys and 1493 girls. Consistent with past studies, gender and age differences were found in the self-reported occurrence of everyday stressors and in levels of internalizing symptoms. Girls reported significantly more stressful events from age 12 to 17 than boys, and girls showed higher levels of internalizing from age 13. We also found that girls reported higher perceived stressor intensity than boys …