Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 119, Issue 1 , Pages 66-75 , December 2009

Appraisals of stressors and common mental disorder from early to mid-adulthood in the 1946 British birth cohort

  • Stephani L. Hatch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychological Medicine, Section of General Hospital Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychological, Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RJ, UK.
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  • Gita Mishra

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, UK
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  • Matthew Hotopf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychological Medicine, Section of General Hospital Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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  • Peter B. Jones

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health National Health Service Trust, Cambridge, UK
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  • Diana Kuh

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, UK

Received 6 February 2009 ,Revised 31 March 2009 ,Accepted 31 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2009.03.021

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 119, Issue 1 , Pages 66-75 , December 2009

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