Shifting qualities of negative affective experience through adolescence: Age-related change and associations with functional outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Research shows negative affect increases in healthy adolescents, and this normative change is paralleled by increasing risk for the onset of psychopathology. However, research is limited in characterizing qualitative differences in the type of negative affect experienced beyond the positive-negative valence dimension. In the current study, we establish the relationship between different forms of negative affect and functioning outcomes (i.e., different facets of social functioning and life satisfaction), and examine whether these forms of negative affect are differentially prevalent across late childhood and adolescence. Seven-hundred and 70 participants aged 8-17 years completed self-report measures that assessed a wide range of negative affective experiences. A factor analysis on the neg

SUBMITTER: Grisanzio KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9756137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature