Uink Bep, Modecki Kathryn Lynn, Barber Bonnie L, Correia Helen M
School of Psychology & Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt Campus, Mount Gravatt, QLD, Australia.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2018 Oct;49(5):741-756. doi: 10.1007/s10578-018-0784-x.
Numerous theories assert that youth with externalizing symptomatology experience intensified emotion reactivity to stressful events; yet scant empirical research has assessed this notion. Using in-vivo data collected via experience sampling methodology, we assessed whether externalizing symptoms conditioned adolescents' emotion reactivity to daily stressors (i.e. change in emotion pre-post stressor) among 206 socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. We also assessed whether higher externalizing symptomology was associated with experiencing more stressors overall, and whether adolescents' emotional upheavals resulted in experiencing a subsequent stressor. Hierarchical linear models showed that adolescents higher in externalizing symptoms experienced stronger emotion reactivity in sadness, anger, jealously, loneliness, and (dips in) excitement. Externalizing symptomatology was not associated with more stressful events, but a stress-preventative effect was found for recent upheavals in jealousy among youth low in externalizing. Findings pinpoint intense emotion reactivity to daily stress as a risk factor for youth with externalizing symptoms living in socioeconomic disadvantage.
众多理论断言，有外化症状的青少年对压力事件的情绪反应会增强；然而，很少有实证研究评估过这一观点。我们通过经验取样法收集现场数据，评估了外化症状是否会影响206名社会经济地位不利的青少年对日常压力源的情绪反应（即压力源前后情绪的变化）。我们还评估了较高的外化症状是否与总体上经历更多压力源有关，以及青少年的情绪动荡是否会导致随后经历压力源。分层线性模型显示，外化症状较高的青少年在悲伤、愤怒、嫉妒、孤独和（情绪）兴奋度下降方面表现出更强的情绪反应。外化症状与更多压力事件无关，但在外化症状较低的青少年中，最近的嫉妒情绪波动具有压力预防作用。研究结果指出，对日常压力的强烈情绪反应是生活在社会经济不利环境中有外化症状青少年的一个风险因素。
