Conference paper
Adolescent regulation of strong emotions: Age and gender differences
Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
Annual Conference of the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (Honolulu, 30/05/2007–02/06/2007)
2007
Abstract
Adolescents’ capacity to regulate strong emotions is an important aspect of successful adolescent development. To date, no measure has been available to assess adolescents’ ability to regulate their strong emotions. This study used the MACS, an adapted version of the Affective Control Scale (Chambless & Williams, 1982), to survey over 2100 high school students, aged 12-18 years. A further 1200 of these completed a follow-up survey. The findings indicated that, in general, males had an increased fear of positive emotion and anger, whereas females had an increased fear of negative emotions of depression and anxiety. Females were also less able than males to take charge of their strong emotions. In addition, fear of negative emotions was greatest for girls aged 14 years. The MACS proved to be a useful and dependable way of ascertaining adolescents’ emotional functioning.
Details
- Title
- Adolescent regulation of strong emotions: Age and gender differences
- Authors/Creators
- K. Geddes (Author/Creator)S. Dziurawiec (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- Annual Conference of the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (Honolulu, 30/05/2007–02/06/2007)
- Publisher
- Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
- Identifiers
- 991005542785907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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