TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meiser, Susanne
A1  - Esser, Günter
T1  - Interpersonal Stress Generation-A Girl Problem?
BT  - The Role of Depressive Symptoms, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Gender in Early Adolescent Stress Generation
JF  - Journal of early adolescence
N2  - To provide further insight into stress generation patterns in boys and girls around puberty, this study investigated longitudinal reciprocal relations between depressive symptoms, dysfunctional attitudes, and stress generation, the process by which individuals contribute to the occurrence of stress in interpersonal contexts (e.g., problematic social interactions) or in noninterpersonal contexts (e.g., achievement problems). A community sample of N = 924 German children and early adolescents (51.8% male) completed depressive symptoms and dysfunctional attitudes measures at T1 and again 20 months later (T2). Stressful life events were reported at T2. Dysfunctional attitudes were unrelated to stress generation. Interpersonal, but not noninterpersonal, dependent stress partially mediated the relationship between initial and later depressive symptoms, with girls being more likely to generate interpersonal stress in response to depressive symptoms. Findings underscore the role of interpersonal stress generation in the early development of depressive symptomatology, and in the gender difference in depression prevalence emerging around puberty.
KW  - stress generation
KW  - depression
KW  - dysfunctional attitudes
KW  - children and adolescents
KW  - gender differences
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431617725197
SN  - 0272-4316
SN  - 1552-5449
VL  - 39
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 66
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -