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. 1996 Aug;105(3):401-9.
doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.401.

Tripartite structure of positive and negative affect, depression, and anxiety in child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients

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Tripartite structure of positive and negative affect, depression, and anxiety in child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients

T E Joiner Jr et al. J Abnorm Psychol. 1996 Aug.

Abstract

The tripartite model of depression and anxiety suggests that depression and anxiety have shared (generalized negative affect) and specific (anhedonia and physiological hyperarousal) components. In one of the 1st studies to examine the structure of mood-related symptoms in youngsters, this model was tested among 116 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients, ages 8-16 (M = 12.46; SD = 2.33). Consistent with the tripartite model, a 3-factor (Depression, Anxiety, and Negative Affect) model represented the observed data well. Follow-up analyses suggested that a nonhierarchical arrangement of the 3 factors may be preferable to a hierarchical one.

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