Stress symptoms and stress coping in depressed girls

• Published in: Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie Vol. 41; no. 6; p. 383
• Main Authors: Schmidt-Gies, Ulrike, Laessle, Reinhold
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; German
• Published: Switzerland 01.11.2013
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Comorbidity; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Female; Germany; Humans; Interview, Psychological; Male; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Stress, Psychological - complications; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult; Germany; stress coping; Stressbewältigung; Jugendliche; children; Depression; Stress; major depression
• ISSN: 1422-4917
• DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000254

Depressive disorders occur frequently in adolescents. Maintenance of depression has been related to stress and stress coping. The study describes which stress load and which strategies of stress coping are present in girls with major depression. 74 girls with major depression were compared to a norm...