Appraisals of dependent stressor controllability and severity are associated with depression and anxiety symptoms in youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Stress is well established as a strong risk factor for internalizing psychopathology. Learned helplessness research demonstrates that perceived controllability of stressors affects internalizing symptoms. Furthermore, subjective perceived stress is associated with psychopathology. However, most recent research has focused on measuring the frequency and expert-rated severity of stressful life events despite evidence for the importance of stress perceptions. The present study brings together past and current literatures to investigate the importance of perceived severity and controllability of recent life events in the association between stressors and internalizing symptoms.

Design and methods

We used a revised version of the Adolescent Life Events Q

SUBMITTER: Fassett-Carman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6709974 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature