Gender as a moderator of the relationship between life stress and psychopathology.
This study examined the relationship between cumulative stressful life events and internalizing, externalizing, and total problem behaviors in children and adolescents. One thousand cases assessed in the year 2007 at the Child Guidance Clinic were randomly sampled. An increase in the total number...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15500 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This study examined the relationship between cumulative stressful life events and
internalizing, externalizing, and total problem behaviors in children and adolescents. One
thousand cases assessed in the year 2007 at the Child Guidance Clinic were randomly
sampled. An increase in the total number of stressful life events was positively associated
with increased Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) externalizing, internalizing, and total
problem scores. Boys scored higher than girls on the externalizing and total problem scales,
while both genders scored similarly on the internalizing problem scale. Gender moderated the
relationship between life events and externalizing problems, but not the relationship between
life events and internalizing problems. These findings have implications for prevention and
intervention efforts that attempt to address problem behaviors in children/adolescents. |
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