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3-161 - Unpacking Emotion Regulation within Adolescent Peer Relationships: Innovative Approaches

Sat, March 23, 2:30 to 4:00pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 313

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Emotion regulation (ER) is a dynamic process that is influenced by the social context in which the emotion is experienced. Although ER skills develop considerably during childhood, adolescence poses new challenges for emotion management as the increasingly complex social context require adaptation of these skills. Additionally, how peers respond to each other’s emotions has implications for psychosocial adjustment. This symposium provides an examination of different ER strategies used specifically within the adolescent peer context, and their relations to social and psychological outcomes using samples of adolescents from Australia, the Netherlands, and the USA. The role of gender and emotion type are highlighted.
Using experience sampling with disadvantaged youth, the first paper examines how emotional reactivity to stressors is influenced by levels of peer support within different social contexts. The second presentation investigates how specific types of ER difficulties are related to adolescents’ emotional expressivity and time spent discussing emotions in a discourse task with a friend. The third study evaluates inhibition and dysregulation of sadness, anger, and worry within reciprocated adolescent best friend dyads to determine whether these strategies predict psychological outcomes while controlling for dyadic influences. The fourth paper provides validation of a questionnaire that assesses youth’s use of behavioral and cognitive emotion regulation responses within a peer provocation situation and demonstrates how strategies are uniquely related to internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Together, these papers provide a cohesive picture of the importance of unpacking ER into its many constituent responses within the adolescent peer context using innovative approaches.

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