Stressful experiences and efforts to cope with stress are central to understanding
psychological distress and psychopathology during adolescence. Depressive phenomena …

Research on depressive phenomena during adolescence has focused on 3 separate
constructs: depressed mood, depressive syndromes, and depressive disorders. Approaches …

The theory that adolescence is universally a time of emotional turmoil has been disproved,
yet research indicates higher rates of negative affect among adolescents than …

Much of current thinking and research on gender differences in exposure and vulnerability to
stress draws on the idea that the salience of social relationships for females is a major factor …

This paper examines gender socialization processes during childhood that may contribute to
a higher incidence of depression or depressive symptoms in females than in males. It is …

Proposed and tested a model of the determinants of adolescents' chronic life stressors,
consisting of sociodemographic, personal, and contextual stress and coping factors, using …

This study investigated the direct effects of parental marital status on lower-socioeconomic
status Black and Latino adolescents and the moderating effects of adolescents' interactions …