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The cognitive moderation of daily stress in early adolescence

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Division of Community Psychiatry, University of Washington, Washington, USA

    Mark Ham

  2. Department of Human Development and Family Ecology, University of Illinois, Urbana

    Reed Larson

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This research was supported by NIMH grant 1 R01 MH38324, “Stress in Daily Life During Early Adolescence,” awarded to Reed Larson and carried out through Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. This work was conducted while Mark Ham was a Predoctoral Fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence (funded by the NIMH training grant #5T32 MH 14668-11) at the University of Chicago and the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and is working at Child Study and Treatment Center. We gratefully acknowledge the valuable comments of Bertram Cohler, Mardi Solomon, Marc Zola, and three anonymous reviewers on earlier drafts of this article.

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Ham, M., Larson, R. The cognitive moderation of daily stress in early adolescence. Am J Commun Psychol 18, 567–585 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00938060

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