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

Silk, Jennifer S.; Steinberg, Laurence; Morris, and Amanda Sheffield

doi:10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00643.x

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“…Moreover, our findings on the strategy of passive behavior are in line with a recent study on emotion regulation among young adolescents which has provided evidence to suggest that responding to negative emotions with greater levels of disengagement, including inaction, is inversely related to the effective down-regulation of negative affect (Silk et al, 2003).…”

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“…This experience sampling method was employed in a study by Silk and colleagues (Silk, Steinberg, & Sheffield Morris, 2003). Adolescents between 12 and 15 years reported on their use of specific cognitive and behavioral emotion-regulation strategies in response to a self-identified emotion-eliciting experience during the hour preceding a preprogrammed beep transmitted from a wrist watch.…”

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Emotion regulation and its effects on mood improvement in response to an in vivo peer rejection challenge.

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This study examined children's spontaneous use of behavioral emotion regulation (ER) strategies and their effects on subsequent mood change in response to an in vivo peer rejection manipulation. Participants (N ϭ 186), ranging between 10 and 13 years of age, played a computer game based on the television show Survivor and were randomized to either peer rejection (being voted out of the game) or nonrejection control. In response to rejection, more than one third of the participants (38%) displayed a marked worsening (i.e., reliable change) in state mood. After receiving feedback, time spent on several behavioral ER strategies during a 5-minute postfeedback period was assessed. At the end of the postfeedback period, children's cognitive activity was also assessed. More time spent on behavioral distraction was positively linked to subsequent increases in positive affect, whereas the reverse pattern was found for disengagement/passive behavior. Moreover, higher endorsement ratings for the strategy of "cognitive analysis" were associated with stronger increases in negative affect.

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Emotion regulation and its effects on mood improvement in response to an in vivo peer rejection challenge.

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“…Recent evidence documents cultural differences in emotion socialization and their impacts on child emotional expression (Cole et al 2006). Given the relevance of emotion socialization (Suveg et al 2005) and emotion regulation skills (Silk et al 2003;Suveg and Zeman 2004;Zeman et al 2002) to the development of both internalizing and externalizing problems in youth, racial/ethnic differences in symptomatology may be partially explained by differences in emotion regulation across groups. Research examining differences in the development of emotion regulation skills across racial/ethnic groups and the associations that these differences have with adolescent psychopathology may provide insight into potential mechanisms by which certain racial/ethnic groups are at higher risk for developing psychopathology during adolescence.…”

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescents

McLaughlin

Hilt

Nolen–Hoeksema

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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The prevalence of most adult psychiatric disorders varies across racial/ethnic groups and has important implications for prevention and intervention efforts. Research on racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and disorders in adolescents has been less consistent or generally lacking. The current study examined the prevalence of these symptom groups in a large sample of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in which the three major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. (White, Black, and Hispanic/Latino) were well-represented. Hispanic females reported experiencing higher levels of depression, anxiety, and reputational aggression than other groups. Black males reported the highest levels of overtly aggressive behavior and also reported higher levels of physiologic anxiety and disordered eating than males from other racial/ethnic groups. Hispanic females also exhibited higher levels of comorbidity than other racial/ethnic groups. KeywordsRacial/ethnic differences; Adolescence; Anxiety; Depression; Eating pathology; Aggression Racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of symptoms of depression (Blazer et al. 1994;Kessler et al. 1994), anxiety (Brown et al. 1990), and eating disorders (Striegel-Moore et al. 2003) have been documented in a number of studies utilizing adult samples. There has been substantially less work examining racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of psychopathology in adolescents. Large epidemiologic studies of adolescent psychopathology have typically not focused on racial/ethnic group differences in symptoms or have not included substantial numbers of ethnic minorities. For example, in the Oregon Adolescent Depression Project (Lewinsohn et al. 1993) over 90% of participants were White. Similarly, in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study the vast majority of participants were White (e.g., McGee et al. 1990). Understanding racial/ethnic differences in psychopathology is important for the identification of at-risk groups and targets for prevention efforts, improvement of mental health services, and as a first step in understanding the mechanisms by which risk factors confer vulnerability to psychopathology differentially on various segments of the population.The research that has been conducted examining race/ethnicity differences in adolescent psychopathology has yielded inconsistent findings about differences in the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and aggression. Some studies document significant group differences (e.g., Roberts and Chen 1995;Austin and Chorpita 2004) while others have reported no differences in symptoms across groups (e.g., Cole et al. 1998).Correspondence to: Katie A. McLaughlin, katie.mclaughlin@yale.edu. Another explanation for disparate findings in studies comparing rates of symptoms in different racial/ethnic groups involves the inclusion of children and adolescents from different age groups (e.g., Kistner et al. 2003;Ollendick et al. 1996). The prevalence of inte...

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“…Children who have difficulties in this area are at risk for becoming either aggressive and hostile or isolated and socially anxious (Cumberland-Li, Eisenberg, Champion, Gershoff, & Fabes, 2003; Frick & Morris, 2004; Howe, 2005; Silk, Steinberg, & Morris, 2003). Children with a secure attachment system employ more adaptive emotion regulatory strategies than those who have an insecure attachment system (Mikulincer, Shaver, & Pereg, 2003).…”

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Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

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Råstam

Wirtberg

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Aim: To add to our knowledge concerning the key elements involved in the individual’s experience of growing up with substance abusing parents and the resulting challenges this involved for their own parenthood. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 parents who had participated in a mental health intervention programme. All had experienced substance abusing parents in their family of origin. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. They also completed a self-report questionnaire assessing their attachment style. Result: Participants reported a high incidence of emotional abuse and neglect coupled with inadequate support from the community. Their own parental role was influenced by high parental stress and a majority had an insecure attachment style. Conclusions: All participants had experienced a very difficult childhood which was reinforced by the fact that they received little support from society. Their childhood experience and the resulting challenges that this created in their own parenting role could negatively influence their own children’s ability to form a secure psychosocial development. It is therefore important to develop instruments that can help to identify children who were raised in misuse families in order to accommodate the transgenerational effects of growing up with substance abusing parents.

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

Cited by 991 publications

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Emotion regulation and its effects on mood improvement in response to an in vivo peer rejection challenge.

Emotion regulation and its effects on mood improvement in response to an in vivo peer rejection challenge.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescents

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

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