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A prospective study of life events and psychological symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gavin Andrews
Gavin Andrews*
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Gavin Andrews, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2036.
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Synopsis

Subjects who were initially free of psychological symptoms completed life event and symptom measures on 3 subsequent occasions 4 months apart. As expected, an association was found between symptoms and life events reported as occurring in the previous 4 months. A path analysis model was then constructed. The association between symptoms and events of the previous 4 months remained, but in neither panel did events reported as occurring more than 4 months previously predict symptoms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , November 1981 , pp. 795 - 801
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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