Trial reportPloS one2018
The regulation of emotions in adolescents: Age differences and emotion-specific patterns.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Benefits for emotional regulation of contact with nature: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Elements in Mental Health Interventions Associated with Effects on Emotion Regulation in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Training-Induced Neural Plasticity in Youth: A Systematic Review of Structural and Functional MRI Studies.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Symptoms and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Young Adolescents From the General Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Depression and anxiety · 2025Trial
- Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson.Child developmentTrial
- Differential adolescent neurodevelopment of emotion processing across internalizing psychopathology and childhood adversity.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Understanding Variation in Social and Emotional Learning Effects: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Physical Education and Physical Activity.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Bidirectional relationship between somatic pain and depression in Chinese adolescents: a cross-lagged study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- A Person-Centred Approach to Adolescent Emotion Regulation Motives, Strategies, and Perceived Efficacies.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Development and validation of experimental induction tasks for worry and rumination: A comparison of personalized and scripted approaches.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- The roles of emotional responding and regulation in adolescent friendship stability: A multimethod functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Mediate the Association Between Peer Attachment and Problematic Use of Smartphone.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
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- Predicting the impact of stuttering in the school years.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Social-emotional competencies and psychological well-being across secondary school transition.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Trajectory and Trend of Weight Status, Emotional Wellbeing and Sleep From Infancy to Childhood to Adolescence in Scotland: An Analysis of Growing up in Scotland Birth Cohort 1.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Effects of Suppression and Expression of Academic Emotions on Peer Acceptance in Outperformance and Underperformance Situations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The distribution of frequent perceived loneliness and its association with suicidal behaviors in adolescents: a school-based study across 93 countries/territories.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Loneliness and health-related quality of life in Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of depressive symptoms and the moderating role of age.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Two experiments addressed the issue of age-related differences and emotion-specific patterns in emotion regulation during adolescence. Experiment 1 examined emotion-specific patterns in the effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction strategies in 14-year-old adolescents (N = 50). Adolescents were instructed to answer spontaneously or to downregulate their responses by using either distraction or cognitive reappraisal strategies before viewing negative pictures and were asked to rate their emotional state after picture presentation. Results showed that reappraisal effectiveness was modulated by emotional content but distraction was not. Reappraisal was more effective than distraction at regulating fear or anxiety (threat-related pictures) but was similar to distraction regarding other emotions. Using the same paradigm, Experiment 2 examined in 12-year-old (N = 56), 13-year-old (N = 49) and 15-year-old adolescents (N = 54) the age-related differences a) in the effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction when implemented and b) in the everyday use of regulation strategies using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Results revealed that regulation effectiveness was equivalent for both strategies in 12-year-olds, whereas a large improvement in reappraisal effectiveness was observed in 13- and 15-year-olds. No age differences were observed in the reported use of reappraisal, but older adolescents less frequently reported using distraction and more frequently reported using the rumination strategy. Taken together, these experiments provide new findings regarding the use and the effectiveness of cognitive regulation strategies during adolescence in terms of age differences and emotion specificity.
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