ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2021
A year in the social life of a teenager: Within-person fluctuations in stress, phone communication, and anxiety and depression.
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- Testing the feasibility of passive sensing among adolescents: Implications for mental health.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Within-Person Fluctuations in Objective Smartphone Use and Emotional Processes During Adolescence: An Intensive Longitudinal Study.Affective science · 2024Article
- Fluctuations in emotion regulation as a mechanism linking stress and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Article
- A collaborative realist review of remote measurement technologies for depression in young people.Nature human behaviour · 2024Review
- Adolescents' daily social media use and mood during the COVID-19 lockdown period.Current research in ecological and social psychology · 2024Article
- A precision neuroscience approach to estimating reliability of neural responses during emotion processing: Implications for task-fMRI.NeuroImage · 2024Article
- Peer facilitation of emotion regulation in adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
- Leveraging deep learning models to understand the daily experience of anxiety in teenagers over the course of a year.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Linguistic measures of psychological distance track symptom levels and treatment outcomes in a large set of psychotherapy transcripts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Stressful life events (SLEs) are strongly associated with the emergence of adolescent anxiety and depression, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood, especially at the within-person level. We investigated how adolescent social communication (i.e., frequency of calls and texts) following SLEs relates to changes in internalizing symptoms in a multi-timescale intensive year-long study (N=30; n=355 monthly observations; n=~5,000 experience-sampling observations). Within-person increases in SLEs were associated with receiving more calls than usual at both monthly- and momentary-levels, and making more calls at the monthly-level. Increased calls were prospectively associated with worsening internalizing symptoms at the monthly-level only, suggesting that SLEs rapidly influences phone communication patterns, but these communication changes may have a more protracted, cumulative influence on internalizing symptoms. Finally, increased incoming calls prospectively mediated the association between SLEs and anxiety at the monthly-level. We identify adolescent social communication fluctuations as a potential mechanism conferring risk for stress-related internalizing psychopathology.
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