Wood Erin E, Rudolph Karen D
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Emotion. 2025 Jul 17. doi: 10.1037/emo0001564.
During the transition to middle school, difficulties understanding and identifying emotions may place youth at risk for maladaptive responses to peer victimization. In turn, maladaptive responses to victimization may increase the likelihood of engaging in aggressive behaviors. In a prospective, multi-informant study of 636 youth (338 girls; in fourth grade = 9.94 years; 66.7% White; 34.75% receiving subsidized lunch) from fourth to sixth grades (2008-2011), we examined the indirect pathways from emotional clarity to aggressive behavior via responses to peer victimization. Results revealed that poor emotional clarity predicted less effortful engagement and more involuntary disengagement responses to peer victimization, which predicted more aggressive behaviors. These results highlight the importance of promoting emotional understanding to enhance effective coping with victimization and reduce aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
在向中学过渡的阶段，理解和识别情绪方面的困难可能会使青少年面临对同伴受害做出适应不良反应的风险。反过来，对受害的适应不良反应可能会增加从事攻击性行为的可能性。在一项对636名四至六年级（2008 - 2011年）青少年（338名女孩；四年级时平均年龄9.94岁；66.7%为白人；34.75%接受补贴午餐）进行的前瞻性、多信息源研究中，我们考察了从情绪清晰度经由对同伴受害的反应到攻击性行为的间接路径。结果显示，较差的情绪清晰度预示着对同伴受害较少的积极应对和较多的被动回避反应，而这又预示着更多的攻击性行为。这些结果凸显了促进情绪理解以增强对受害的有效应对并减少攻击行为的重要性。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
