A prospective study of life events and psychological symptoms
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 11 (4) , 795-801
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700041295
Abstract
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.Keywords
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