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Socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents with elevated externalizing symptoms show heightened emotion reactivity to daily stress: An experience sampling study
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Socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents with elevated externalizing symptoms show heightened emotion reactivity to daily stress: An experience sampling study

B. Uink, K.L. Modecki, B.L. Barber and H.M. Correia
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, Vol.49(5), pp.741-756
2018
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Abstract

Numerous theories assert that youth with externalizing symptomatology experience intensified emotion reactivity to stressful events; yet scant empirical research has assessed this notion. Using in-vivo data collected via experience sampling methodology, we assessed whether externalizing symptoms conditioned adolescents' emotion reactivity to daily stressors (i.e. change in emotion pre-post stressor) among 206 socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. We also assessed whether higher externalizing symptomology was associated with experiencing more stressors overall, and whether adolescents' emotional upheavals resulted in experiencing a subsequent stressor. Hierarchical linear models showed that adolescents higher in externalizing symptoms experienced stronger emotion reactivity in sadness, anger, jealously, loneliness, and (dips in) excitement. Externalizing symptomatology was not associated with more stressful events, but a stress-preventative effect was found for recent upheavals in jealousy among youth low in externalizing. Findings pinpoint intense emotion reactivity to daily stress as a risk factor for youth with externalizing symptoms living in socioeconomic disadvantage.

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6 Social Sciences
6.24 Psychiatry & Psychology
6.24.15 Parenting and Child Development
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Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Psychology, Developmental
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