Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Psychology Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2021 Mar;35(2):367-374. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1817727. Epub 2020 Sep 6.
Despite strong evidence of the influence of implicit theories of emotion (ITE) on mental health symptoms among adult samples, scant attention has been paid to this important relation during adolescence. Moreover, it remains unclear which proximal processes may help to explain the link between ITE and mental health. As such, the current study had two objectives: (1) to assess the association of ITE and later anxiety and depressive symptoms within an adolescent sample, and (2) evaluate the mediating role of real-world emotion regulation strategies on the association between ITE and mental health. A sample of 13-15-year-old adolescents ( = 183, mean age = 13.9, SD = 0.91, 50% female) completed a measure of ITE (Time 1), and subsequently reported on their emotion regulation strategy use via an ESM smart-phone app for two weeks (Time 2). Youth then reported on their anxiety and depressive symptoms six months later (Time 3). Mediational analyses revealed that the proportion to which adolescents used reappraisal and suppression mediated the association between ITE and depressive symptoms: higher levels of incremental theories of emotion were associated with more reappraisal, and less suppression, use, which in turn predicted fewer depressive symptoms six months later. None of the strategies measured, however, mediated the association between ITE and anxiety symptoms.
尽管有大量证据表明情绪内隐理论（ITE）会影响成年人群体的心理健康症状，但在青少年时期，人们对这种重要关系的关注甚少。此外，目前尚不清楚哪些近端过程可能有助于解释 ITE 与心理健康之间的联系。因此，本研究有两个目的：（1）评估青少年样本中 ITE 与后期焦虑和抑郁症状之间的关联；（2）评估现实世界中的情绪调节策略在 ITE 与心理健康之间的关联中的中介作用。研究招募了 13-15 岁的青少年（n=183，平均年龄=13.9，标准差=0.91，50%为女性）完成了 ITE 测量（第 1 次），随后通过智能手机 ESM 应用程序在两周内报告他们的情绪调节策略使用情况（第 2 次）。六个月后（第 3 次），青少年报告了他们的焦虑和抑郁症状。中介分析表明，青少年使用重新评估和抑制的比例中介了 ITE 和抑郁症状之间的关联：更高水平的增量情绪理论与更多的重新评估和更少的抑制使用相关，而这反过来又预示着六个月后抑郁症状较少。然而，所测量的策略都没有中介 ITE 和焦虑症状之间的关联。
