Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Feb;36(1):181-195. doi: 10.1017/S0954579422001079. Epub 2022 Dec 12.
Adolescence is an important stage for the development of emotion regulation skills, especially for adolescent girls who are at elevated risk for the development of depression and anxiety. Although some emotion regulation strategies are more effective at helping adolescents regulate negative affect on average, research indicates strategy effectiveness varies with the context in which a strategy is deployed. Yet less work has been done examining which contextual factors are associated with adolescents emotion regulation strategies in their daily lives. This study examined individual and contextual factors related to negative interpersonal events that are associated with strategy effectiveness, including age, emotional intensity, perceived controllability, and co-regulatory support, and their association with adolescent emotion regulation strategy switching in daily life via ecological momentary assessment. Results indicated that adolescent girls differed in the degree to which they altered their emotion regulation strategies throughout their daily lives, and that switching strategies was associated with age as well as individual and within-person differences in perceived controllability, emotional intensity, and co-regulatory support. This study provides critical proof-of-concept of the utility of emotion regulation strategy switching as a measure of regulatory flexibility and highlights regulatory processes that may hold clues to the mechanisms of developmental psychopathology.
青春期是发展情绪调节技能的重要阶段，特别是对于处于抑郁和焦虑高发风险的青春期女孩。尽管一些情绪调节策略在帮助青少年平均调节负面情绪方面更有效，但研究表明，策略的有效性会因策略的使用情境而异。然而，对于哪些情境因素与青少年日常生活中的情绪调节策略有关，研究还做得不够。本研究考察了与负面人际事件相关的个体和情境因素，这些因素与策略的有效性有关，包括年龄、情绪强度、感知可控性和共同调节支持，以及它们通过生态瞬间评估与青少年日常生活中的情绪调节策略转换的关联。结果表明，青春期女孩在日常生活中改变情绪调节策略的程度存在差异，而且策略转换与年龄以及感知可控性、情绪强度和共同调节支持的个体和个体内差异有关。这项研究提供了情绪调节策略转换作为衡量调节灵活性的有效性的重要概念验证，并强调了可能为发展性精神病理学机制提供线索的调节过程。
