@article{ref1,
title="The Dynamics of Life Stressors and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: A Test of Six Theoretical Models",
journal="Child development",
year="2008",
author="Clements, Margaret and Aber, J. Lawrence and Seidman, Edward",
volume="79",
number="4",
pages="1168-1182",
abstract="<p>Structural equation modeling was used to compare 6 competing theoretically based psychosocial models of the longitudinal association between life stressors and depressive symptoms in a sample of early adolescents (<i>N</i>= 907; 40% Hispanic, 32% Black, and 19% White; mean age at Time 1 = 11.4 years). Only two models fit the data, both of which included paths modeling the effect of depressive symptoms on stressors recall: The mood‐congruent cognitive bias model included only depressive symptoms to life stressors paths (DS→S), whereas the fully transactional model included paths representing both the DS→S and stressors to depressive symptoms (S→DS) effects. Social causation models and the stress generation model did not fit the data. Findings demonstrate the importance of accounting for mood‐congruent cognitive bias in stressors–depressive symptoms investigations.</p><p />",
language="",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01182.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01182.x"
}