The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 6 , Pages 918-923.e1 , June 2009

Parental Overprotection Predicts the Development of Functional Somatic Symptoms in Young Adolescents

  • Karin A.M. Janssens, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology and Graduate Schools for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences and for Health Research, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Karin A. M. Janssens, Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Albertine J. Oldehinkel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology and Graduate Schools for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences and for Health Research, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry–Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Judith G.M. Rosmalen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology and Graduate Schools for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences and for Health Research, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Received 22 August 2008 ,Revised 28 October 2008 ,Accepted 10 December 2008.

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 A list of funding sources is available at www.jpeds.com (Appendix). The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0022-3476(08)01096-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.12.023

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 6 , Pages 918-923.e1 , June 2009

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