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Peer reviewedMaag, John W.; Behrens, John T. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
A study of 465 junior/senior high-school learning-disabled (LD) and seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) adolescents found that 21 percent experienced severe depressive symptomatology, with no severity differences exhibited between LD and SED students. Senior high females exhibited a more negative cognitive style than their male peers.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Depression (Psychology)
