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Specifically, the prizewinning study attempted to show evidence for different theoretical models related to depression, the stress-vulnerability model and the stress generation model. Results showed the important role of personality, in conjunction with stressful life events, toward the development of depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood, as well as the role of one’s own depressive symptoms toward generation of dependent life events one year later.This study is part of one of the projects being undertaken by the IDAP research team, financed by Universitat Jaume I and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. In the study, several psychological and social variables are assessed in university students throughout a two-year span, with the aim of exploring their roles in the development of different psychopathological symptoms. Research studies of this nature may be helpful toward the development of selective intervention programs in high-risk populations.