Dynamic associations between stressful life events and adolescent internalizing psychopathology in a multiwave longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Associations between stressful life events (SLEs) and internalizing psychopathology are complex and bidirectional, involving interactions among stressors across development to predict psychopathology (i.e., stress sensitization) and psychopathology predicting greater exposure to SLEs (i.e., stress generation). Although stress sensitization and generation theoretical models inherently focus on within-person effects, most previous research has compared average levels of stress and psychopathology across individuals in a sample (i.e., between-person effects). The present study addressed this gap by investigating stress sensitization and stress generation effects in a multiwave, prospective study of SLEs and adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms. Depression, anxiety, and SLE exposure were

SUBMITTER: Jenness JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802743 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature