Journal
EMOTION
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 1017-1029Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000899
Keywords
cognitive reappraisal; expressive suppression; emotional inertia; adolescent depression; family climate
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Funding
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [1645475]
- Robert H. and Nancy J. Blayney Professorship at Miami University
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1645475] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study found a direct relationship between negative family emotional climate and depressive symptoms in adolescents. It also revealed that cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression (only for girls) mediated the indirect relationship between negative family emotional climate and depressive symptoms. However, emotional inertia was not found to be related to depressive symptoms.
Adolescent depression is a serious public health concern, warranting examination of its development. A negative family emotional climate (NFEC) is one risk factor for the development of depressive symptoms. The specific emotion regulatory processes linking NFEC and depression, however, remain unclear. Cognitive reappraisal, a strategy that entails shifting one's thoughts about an emotion eliciting situation before the emotion is generated, expressive suppression, an emotion regulation strategy where individuals push down their expressions of an emotion after it is generated, and emotional inertia, the process of remaining in a given emotional state for a longer period compared to other individuals, were tested as potential emotion processes through which NFEC might be indirectly related to depressive symptoms. Adolescents (N = 92; ages 11-18; 62% girls, 80% White) participated in a multimethod two-time-point study (similar to 6 months apart). NFEC was measured at Time 1; cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, emotional inertia, and depressive symptoms, at Time 2. Emotional inertia scores for negative affect (NA) and positive affect (PA) were obtained through continuous coding of affect during 2 parent-child interactions. Codes were analyzed second-by-second, and multilevel logistic regression was used to extract each participant's emotional inertia score. NFEC was directly related to depressive symptoms. NFEC was also indirectly related to depressive symptoms via cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression (for girls, not boys) but not emotional inertia (for either NA or PA). Results suggest that both emotion regulation and the family emotional climate should be considered as targets for intervention.
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