Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Language for emotions in adolescents with externalizing and internalizing disorders.

Richard O'Kearney1, Mark R Dadds

  • 1Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. Richard.Okearney@anu.edu.au

Development and Psychopathology
|June 10, 2006
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Parenting Interventions for Child Mental Health: The Science and Practice of Measurement-Based Care.

Clinical child and family psychology review·2026
Same author

Systematic review of measures and interventions for caregiver adjustment to child autism diagnosis.

Autism : the international journal of research and practice·2026
Same author

Multi-informant reports of preschool mental health: Validation of parent and educator reports and normative data for the preschool Pediatric Symptom Checklist and PSC-17.

Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health·2025
Same author

Do Parents Find it Helpful to Receive A Diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder for their Child?

Child psychiatry and human development·2025
Same author

Co-occurring Neurodevelopmental Conditions in Children: Advocating for Transdiagnostic Approach to Assessments.

Journal of autism and developmental disorders·2025
Same author

Practitioner perspectives on the child and youth mental health system in Australia: what needs to change?

Australian journal of psychology·2025
Same journal

Mothers' and fathers' social support trajectories and children's prosocial development: A dyadic perspective.

Development and psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Developmental trajectories of child maltreatment: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

Development and psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Trajectories of distressing psychotic-like experience in youth: the interplay of recent negative life events and screen time.

Development and psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Bidirectional associations between maternal and paternal depressive symptoms across the postpartum period: Contributions of maternal prenatal depression and childhood neglect.

Development and psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Psychological resilience moderates the relationship between childhood adversity, brain network connectivity, and wellness.

Development and psychopathology·2026
Same journal

The long view: Lie-telling trajectories, ages 6 to 19 years.

Development and psychopathology·2026
See all related articles

Adolescents with internalizing or externalizing disorders use less specific emotion language than typically developing peers. Their emotion word use differs based on the disorder and emotion type, highlighting domain-specific language patterns.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Emotion language is crucial for emotional regulation.
  • Adolescents with behavioral or emotional disorders may exhibit atypical emotion language.
  • Understanding these differences is key to targeted interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare emotion language structure and quality in adolescents with externalizing disorders, internalizing disorders, and no disorder.
  • To investigate how emotion language varies across different emotion-eliciting contexts.
  • To determine if deficits are global or domain-specific.

Main Methods:

  • Compared emotion language in 3 groups: externalizing disorders (N=21), internalizing disorders (N=18), and no disorder (N=16).

Related Experiment Videos

  • Elicited emotion language using vignettes (anger/sadness, fear), autobiographical experiences, and actual emotional challenges.
  • Analyzed semantic specificity, intensity, and focus (inner-directed, outer-directed, cognitive, affective).

    • Main Results:

    • Clinical adolescents used fewer semantically specific emotion terms for anger, sadness, and fear compared to typical adolescents.
    • Internalizing youth used inner-directed, situational, and less intense terms for anger/sadness, and cognitive terms for threats.
    • Externalizing youth used more outer-directed, intense terms for anger/sadness, and direct affective terms for threats.

    Conclusions:

    • Adolescent emotion language differs between internalizing and externalizing disorders, not just a general deficit in externalizing groups.
    • Emotion language is affected differently by disorder type and specific emotion domains (anger/sadness vs. fear).
    • Domain-specific analysis of emotion language is more informative for understanding emotion regulation in clinical populations than global assessments.