Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 126, Issue 1 , Pages 103-112 , October 2010

The specificity of childhood adversities and negative life events across the life span to anxiety and depressive disorders

  • Philip Spinhoven

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Leiden University, Institute of Psychology, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 71 5273377; fax: +31 71 5274678.
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  • Bernet M. Elzinga

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Jacqueline G.F.M. Hovens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Karin Roelofs

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Frans G. Zitman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Patricia van Oppen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry/EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Received 5 October 2009 ,Revised 24 February 2010 ,Accepted 24 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.02.132

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 126, Issue 1 , Pages 103-112 , October 2010

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