Prepubescent boys are, if anything, more likely than girls to be depressed. During
adolescence, however, a dramatic shift occurs: between the ages of 11 and 13 years, this …

A developmental-contextual model of couples coping with chronic illness is presented that
views chronic illness as affecting the adjustment of both the patient and the spouse such that …

This 4-year longitudinal study of 191 girls and 185 boys living in intact families in the rural
Midwest examines the trajectories of life events and depressive symptoms in adolescence …

Detailing experiences of real families, this book attempts to capture the emotional drama
inherent in daily family life. The study that preceded the book involved 55 mostly white …

The present study used a contextual and transactional approach to examine age and
gender differences in the experience and consequences of life stress in clinic‐referred …

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 …

In this article, we review the literature on stress, coping, risk, and resilience in children, little
of which is reflected in the social welfare literature. A consistent relation has been found …

Investigated in this study were hypothesized reciprocal influences between stressful life
events and adolescent maladjustment using data from a 6–year, prospective longitudinal …

This reprinted article originally appeared in Health Psychology, 13 (6), 507-515 (1994).(The
following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1995-14098-001). This study …

Ample research has shown that female adolescents endorse morte internalizing and fewer
externalizing symptoms than do male adolescents, but explanations for these gender …