Developmental changes in youth affect: A within-person approach.

IF 3.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI:10.1037/emo0001591

George Abitante, Julianne M Griffith, Alexander P Christensen, David Cole, Jami F Young, Benjamin L Hankin

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Abstract

The transition from childhood to adolescence is a period of social-emotional reorganization involving changes in affect. Most research has examined developmental changes in between-person affect. Few studies have investigated developmental changes in associations between individual emotions and the structure of affective experience in youth across developmental age. This study used exploratory graph analysis to assess developmental changes in emotional complexity using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule administered at three time points from 2007 to 2013 in a three-cohort, accelerated longitudinal design spanning Grades 3 through 12 (N = 682): late childhood, M_age = 9.39, SD = 0.53; early adolescence, M_age = 11.80, SD = 0.67; and middle adolescence, M_age = 14.60, SD = 0.60. Decreases in edge density and entropy and increases in R² were identified across development. In contrast, nonlinear shifts were found for the number of negative edges between affective dimensions and mean absolute error and possible shifts in dimensionality. Results suggest that global network metrics support decreases in emotional complexity from childhood through adolescence, though other indices suggest distinct patterns of change. Implications for research and study limitations are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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青少年的发展变化影响：一个人的方法。

从童年到青春期的过渡是一个社会情感重组的时期，涉及情感的变化。大多数研究都考察了人与人之间情感的发展变化。很少有研究调查了个体情绪与情感体验结构之间的发展变化。本研究采用探索性图表分析方法，在2007年至2013年三个时间点对三年级至十二年级（N = 682）的学生进行积极和消极情绪量表（Positive and Negative Affect Schedule）评估情绪复杂性的发展变化：儿童晚期，Mage = 9.39, SD = 0.53；青春期早期，Mage = 11.80, SD = 0.67；青春期中期，Mage = 14.60, SD = 0.60。在整个发展过程中，边缘密度和熵减小，R²增加。相反，情感维度与平均绝对误差之间的负边数量以及维度上的可能变化存在非线性变化。结果表明，从童年到青春期，全球网络指标支持情感复杂性的降低，尽管其他指标显示了不同的变化模式。讨论了研究的意义和研究的局限性。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.