Adolescents' Emotion Regulation in Daily Life: Links to Depressive Symptoms and Problem Behavior

This study examined links between emotion regulation and adjustment in a sample of 152 adolescents in Grades 7 (M age = 12) and 10 (M age = 15). Emotion regulation was assessed using the experience sampling method, in which adolescents provided multiple reports about the intensity, lability, and str...

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Published in:Child development Vol. 74; no. 6; pp. 1869 - 1880
Main Authors: Silk, Jennifer S., Steinberg, Laurence, Morris, Amanda Sheffield
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.11.2003
Blackwell Publishers
Blackwell
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adjustment
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anger
Anxiety
Attention
Behavioural disorders
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Defense Mechanisms
Depression
Depression - psychology
Depressive disorders
Emotional adjustment
Emotional expression
Emotional states
Emotions
Empirical Articles
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Miscellaneous
Personality Inventory
Problem Solving
Psychological stress
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regulation
Risk Factors
Sadness
Self-Assessment
Symptoms
USA
Well-being
Human
Mood disorder
Affect affectivity
Daily living
Depression
Emotion emotionality
Personality
Behavioral disorder
Symptomatology
Adolescent
Risk factor
Self regulation
Strategy
ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624
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Summary:This study examined links between emotion regulation and adjustment in a sample of 152 adolescents in Grades 7 (M age = 12) and 10 (M age = 15). Emotion regulation was assessed using the experience sampling method, in which adolescents provided multiple reports about the intensity, lability, and strategies used to regulate negative emotions across 1 week. Adolescents also completed self-report measures of adjustment. Adolescents who reported more intense and labile emotions and less effective regulation of these emotions also reported more depressive symptoms and problem behavior. Responding to negative emotions with disengagement (e.g., denial) or involuntary engagement (e.g., rumination) was less effective in regulating negative affect, and greater use of these strategies was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms and problem behavior.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00643.x