@article{ref1,
title="Undesirable life-events and depression in young adolescents",
journal="Journal of child and family studies",
year="1993",
author="Meyer, Pamela A. and Garrison, Carol Z. and Jackson, Kirby L. and Addy, Cheryl L. and McKeown, Robert E. and Waller, Jennifer L.",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="47-60",
abstract="We compared the relationship between individual undesirable life-events and comprehensive life-event factors, as well as major depression in adolescents. Students in four public suburban middle schools were screened for depressive symptomatology and life-events by a self-administered questionnaire. Seven of 21 individual events (parents' divorce, parental job loss, problems between parents, problems between the adolescent and his/her parents, failing a grade in school, school suspension, death of a close friend) and three of six life-event factors (conflict/disappointment, marital discord, maladjustment) were significantly related to depression in univariate models. A multivariate examination of the individual events was difficult to interpret, but examination of the event factors found maladjustment and conflict/disappointment significant. Analyses using the undesirable life-event factors provided a clearer picture of the relationships investigated by grouping related events into a more manageable number of independent categories. Specific combinations of life-events suggest stronger associations with adolescent depression than others. Clinicians may identify youths at risk for depression when specific combinations of undesirable life-events occur.<p />",
language="",
issn="1062-1024",
doi="10.1007/BF01321300",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01321300"
}