ReviewFrontiers in psychology2021
Emotion Differentiation and Youth Mental Health: Current Understanding and Open Questions.
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- Examining specific emotion dynamics in daily life in male adolescents: An experience sampling method study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- The Cognitive-Affective Social Processing and Emotion Regulation (CASPER) model.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
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- Characterizing the Autonomic Correlates of Negative Emotion Differentiation: Bridging Laboratory and Daily Life Assessments.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Evidence based consensus statements for digital tools to address youth mental health literacy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Assessing emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents: validation and clinical utility of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale, 16-item.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Examining the association among adolescents' emotional clarity, emotion differentiation, and the regulation of negative and positive affect using a daily diary approach.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Emotional Granularity and Cognitive Reappraisal Affect Social Anxiety and Interpersonal Relationships in Adolescents: A Bayesian Network Analysis.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Momentary Associations Between Emotional Responses to Social Media and Affect: Consistency Across Global Affect and Specific Emotional States.Affective science · 2024Article
- The Emergence of Organized Emotion Dynamics in Childhood.Affective science · 2024Article
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Abstract
A growing body of research identifies emotion differentiation-the ability to specifically identify one's emotions-as a key skill for well-being. High emotion differentiation is associated with healthier and more effective regulation of one's emotions, and low emotion differentiation has been documented in several forms of psychopathology. However, the lion's share of this research has focused on adult samples, even though approximately 50% of mental disorders onset before age 18. This review curates what we know about the development of emotion differentiation and its implications for youth mental health. I first review published studies investigating how emotion differentiation develops across childhood and adolescence, as well as studies testing relations between emotion differentiation and mental health in youth samples. Emerging evidence suggests that emotion differentiation actually
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