The Nonlinear Development of Emotion Differentiation: Granular Emotional Experience Is Low in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: People differ in how specifically they separate affective experiences into different emotion types-a skill called emotion differentiation or emotional granularity. Although increased emotion differentiation has been associated with positive mental health outcomes, little is known about its development. Participants ( N = 143) between the ages of 5 and 25 years completed a laboratory measure of negative emotion differentiation in which they rated how much a series of aversive images made them feel angry, disgusted, sad, scared, and upset. Emotion-differentiation scores were computed using intraclass correlations. Emotion differentiation followed a nonlinear developmental trajectory: It fell from childhood to adolescence and rose from adolescence to adulthood. Mediation analyses suggested th

SUBMITTER: Nook EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6088506 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature