Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 399-405 , April 2008

Change in Adolescents' Internalizing Symptomatology as a Function of Sex and the Timing of Maternal Depressive Symptomatology

  • JENNIFER M. JENKINS, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 1V6, ON, Canada;.
    • ,
  • TRACEY CURWEN, Ph.D.

,Accepted 4 October 2007.

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 Accepted October 4, 2007, under the Editorship of Mina K. Dulcan, M.D.We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for funding the project. Thanks to Richard Wolfe and Jon Rasbash for advice on statistical analyses in an earlier draft and to a blind reviewer. We are grateful to Statistics Canada and the Research Data Centre Program for providing access to the data. Although the research and analysis are based on data from Statistics Canada, the opinions expressed do not represent the views of Statistics Canada.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31816407db

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 399-405 , April 2008

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