TY - JOUR
T1 - Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents with Elevated Externalizing Symptoms Show Heightened Emotion Reactivity to Daily Stress
T2 - An Experience Sampling Study
AU - Uink, Bep
AU - Modecki, Kathryn Lynn
AU - Barber, Bonnie L.
AU - Correia, Helen M.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Numerous theories assert that youth with externalizing symptomatology experience intensified emotion reactivity to stressful events; yet scant empirical research has assessed this notion. Using in-vivo data collected via experience sampling methodology, we assessed whether externalizing symptoms conditioned adolescents’ emotion reactivity to daily stressors (i.e. change in emotion pre-post stressor) among 206 socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. We also assessed whether higher externalizing symptomology was associated with experiencing more stressors overall, and whether adolescents’ emotional upheavals resulted in experiencing a subsequent stressor. Hierarchical linear models showed that adolescents higher in externalizing symptoms experienced stronger emotion reactivity in sadness, anger, jealously, loneliness, and (dips in) excitement. Externalizing symptomatology was not associated with more stressful events, but a stress-preventative effect was found for recent upheavals in jealousy among youth low in externalizing. Findings pinpoint intense emotion reactivity to daily stress as a risk factor for youth with externalizing symptoms living in socioeconomic disadvantage.
AB - Numerous theories assert that youth with externalizing symptomatology experience intensified emotion reactivity to stressful events; yet scant empirical research has assessed this notion. Using in-vivo data collected via experience sampling methodology, we assessed whether externalizing symptoms conditioned adolescents’ emotion reactivity to daily stressors (i.e. change in emotion pre-post stressor) among 206 socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. We also assessed whether higher externalizing symptomology was associated with experiencing more stressors overall, and whether adolescents’ emotional upheavals resulted in experiencing a subsequent stressor. Hierarchical linear models showed that adolescents higher in externalizing symptoms experienced stronger emotion reactivity in sadness, anger, jealously, loneliness, and (dips in) excitement. Externalizing symptomatology was not associated with more stressful events, but a stress-preventative effect was found for recent upheavals in jealousy among youth low in externalizing. Findings pinpoint intense emotion reactivity to daily stress as a risk factor for youth with externalizing symptoms living in socioeconomic disadvantage.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Emotion reactivity
KW - Experience Sampling
KW - Externalizing
KW - Socioeconomic disadvantage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045077430&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10578-018-0784-x
DO - 10.1007/s10578-018-0784-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 29476314
AN - SCOPUS:85045077430
SN - 0009-398X
VL - 49
SP - 741
EP - 756
JO - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
IS - 5
ER -