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Emotion Differentiation in Adolescents: Short-term Trade-offs with Regulation Variability and Emotion Intensity.

Tak Tsun Lo¹, Maaike Verhagen¹, J Loes Pouwels¹

¹Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Summary

Emotion differentiation, the ability to label emotions, surprisingly leads to more stable emotion regulation strategies in adolescents. However, both heightened differentiation and regulation variability are linked to negative emotional outcomes.

Keywords:

Adolescents Dynamics Emotion differentiation Emotion intensity Emotion regulation variability

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Developmental Psychology
Affective Science

Background:

Emotion differentiation, the ability to distinctly label emotions, is theorized to aid emotion regulation in adolescents.
Daily life presents adolescents with changing situations requiring adaptive emotion regulation.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the relationship between momentary emotion differentiation and emotion regulation variability.
To investigate the impact of this interaction on emotion intensity changes in adolescents.

Main Methods:

Utilized five experience sampling datasets with 750 adolescents (aged 11-25).
Collected 25,834 observations assessing emotion differentiation and emotion regulation variability repeatedly.
Analyzed the interaction between differentiation and regulation variability and their effect on emotion intensity.

Main Results:

Heightened emotion differentiation was unexpectedly followed by more stable (less variable) regulation strategy use.
Increased emotion regulation variability was associated with decreased emotion differentiation.
Both heightened differentiation and regulation variability preceded negative emotional outcomes (increased negative, decreased positive emotions).

Conclusions:

Emotion differentiation predicts reduced regulation variability in the short term.
This reduced variability may be linked to adverse changes in emotion intensity.
Findings highlight a complex interplay between emotion differentiation, regulation, and emotional outcomes in adolescents.