Background Child maltreatment is a global public health issue that encompasses physical
abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to intimate partner violence …

Brady and Kendall (1992) concluded that although anxiety and depression in youths are
meaningfully linked, there are important distinctions, and additional research is needed …

Background The DSM-5 encompasses a wide range of symptoms for Major Depressive
Disorder (MDD). Symptoms are commonly added up to sum-scores, and thresholds …

Individuals with depressive symptoms are more likely to be isolated in their social networks,
which can further increase their symptoms. Although social interactions are an important …

Depression is a debilitating mental illness with clear developmental patterns from childhood
through late adolescence. Here, we present data from the Gene Environment Mood (GEM) …

Low self-esteem and depression are strongly related, but there is not yet consistent
evidence on the nature of the relation. Whereas the vulnerability model states that low self …

Background Depression represents a growing public health burden. Understanding how
screen time (ST) in juveniles may be associated with risk of depression is critical for the …

Although the association between maternal depression and adverse child outcomes is well
established, the strength of the association, the breadth or specificity of the outcomes, and …

The pivotal problem of comorbidity research lies in the psychometric foundation it rests on,
that is, latent variable theory, in which a mental disorder is viewed as a latent variable that …

Several studies have shown that people who engage in ruminative responses to depressive
symptoms have higher levels of depressive symptoms over time, after accounting for …