TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender trajectories of adolescent depressed mood
T2 - The dynamic role of stressors and resources
AU - Falci, Christina D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by a grant titled “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth” from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD44138). The study was previously supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH42843). The author thanks Jeylan Mortimer, Ross Macmillan, Heather Turner and Scott Schieman for helpful feedback and suggestions.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This research examines how gender variation in the trajectory of stressors and resources during high school shapes gender variation in the trajectory of depressed mood. Boys have steeper gains in depressed mood than girls during high school. Adolescents with increasing levels of school or work strain and declining levels of parental support or mastery were more likely to have an increasing trajectory of depressed mood; the effect of chronic work was stronger for boys than girls. Steeper declines in parental support and gains in work strain among boys relative to girls explain boy's faster rate of increase in depressed mood during high school.
AB - This research examines how gender variation in the trajectory of stressors and resources during high school shapes gender variation in the trajectory of depressed mood. Boys have steeper gains in depressed mood than girls during high school. Adolescents with increasing levels of school or work strain and declining levels of parental support or mastery were more likely to have an increasing trajectory of depressed mood; the effect of chronic work was stronger for boys than girls. Steeper declines in parental support and gains in work strain among boys relative to girls explain boy's faster rate of increase in depressed mood during high school.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1040-2608(08)00006-3
DO - 10.1016/S1040-2608(08)00006-3
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:68949145393
SN - 1569-4909
VL - 13
SP - 137
EP - 160
JO - Advances in Life Course Research
JF - Advances in Life Course Research
ER -