Citation

Lanteigne DM, Flynn JJ, Eastabrook JM, Hollenstein T. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 2014; 46(1): 29-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/a0029968

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that discordant patterns across multiple domains of emotion reveal important differences in socioemotional functioning. As a result of the social and emotional changes of adolescence, we examined how discordant patterns of self-reported experience, heart rate arousal, and expression of self-conscious affect related to internalizing behaviours and emotion regulation habits. Experience, arousal, and expression of girls (n = 49) aged 12-17 were recorded during social stress, a spontaneous speech. Experience referred to internal subjective feelings (self-reported feelings of self-consciousness), arousal reflected internal bodily changes (heart rate change from baseline to speech), and expression referred to observable self-conscious behaviours (e.g., hiding, nervous smiling). Consistent with previous research, between-subjects concordance was weak or nonexistent. Within-subjects tests of discordance revealed two major findings: (1) Greater experience than expression during the speech was related to girls' trait-like shame, and (2) Girls with high experience and expression, but low arousal had more difficulty regulating their emotions and more internalizing problems. This preliminary study with adolescent girls introduces the possibilities of multimethod emotion research for the purpose of understanding the development of psychopathology in adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Adolescent Development; Emotional Regulation; Emotional States; Emotionality (Personality); Emotions; Internalization; Self-Perception