Hohensee Nicola, Bronstein Michael V, Everaert Jonas, Zabag Reut, Joormann Jutta, Gadassi-Polack Reuma
Faculty of Sports and Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, CT, New Haven, USA.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2025 Sep 4. doi: 10.1007/s10802-025-01371-5.
Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by heightened emotionality. Past research indicated that the biased interpretation of social situations (i.e., interpretation bias) might contribute to these aberrant affect dynamics in adolescents' daily life. Social situations are, however, constantly changing. Therefore, the ability to flexibly revise social interpretations (i.e., interpretation flexibility) might be equally important as interpretation biases for explaining affective outcomes during adolescence. The present study examined whether interpretation bias and inflexibility predicted two major affect dynamics features (i.e., mean and standard deviation) in children and adolescents. At baseline, N = 154 children and adolescents (M = 12.81 years; 48.70% female; 49.35% male; 1.95% non-binary; 72.08% White) completed a task assessing bias and inflexibility in interpreting social situations. Then, for 28 days, participants rated their positive and negative affect. Results showed that inflexibility in revising positive and negative interpretations in light of disconfirming evidence predicted higher intensity of negative affect. When controlling for interpretation inflexibility, positive interpretation bias predicted higher positive affect, whereas negative interpretation bias was associated with more variable negative affect. The results emphasize the predictive utility of interpretation biases and inflexibility for daily affective experiences in youths.
青春期是一个以情绪高度波动为特征的发育阶段。过去的研究表明，对社交情境的偏差性解读（即解读偏差）可能导致青少年日常生活中出现这些异常的情感动态。然而，社交情境是不断变化的。因此，灵活修正社交解读的能力（即解读灵活性）对于解释青少年时期的情感结果可能与解读偏差同样重要。本研究考察了解读偏差和不灵活性是否能预测儿童和青少年的两种主要情感动态特征（即均值和标准差）。在基线时，N = 154名儿童和青少年（平均年龄M = 12.81岁；48.70%为女性；49.35%为男性；1.95%为非二元性别；72.08%为白人）完成了一项评估解读社交情境时的偏差和不灵活性的任务。然后，在28天的时间里，参与者对自己的积极和消极情绪进行评分。结果显示，根据矛盾证据修正积极和消极解读时的不灵活性预示着更高强度的消极情绪。在控制了解读不灵活性后，积极解读偏差预示着更高的积极情绪，而消极解读偏差与更易变的消极情绪相关。研究结果强调了解读偏差和不灵活性对青少年日常情感体验的预测作用。
