Young Adolescents' Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment
Young Adolescents' Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment
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DOI：
10.1177/0272431612462629
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Yi, Chit Yuen
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作者：
Gentzler, Amy L.;Morey, Jennifer N.;Yi, Chit Yuen
这项研究以 56 名青少年（31 名男孩和 25 名女孩，10-14 岁）为样本，考察了对积极事件的最大化和最小化反应与对事件的持续积极情绪和调整之间的关系。在每日报告中，青少年报告了他们对每天最好的事件的积极情绪反应。一周后，他们报告了他们对这 4 天内最强烈的积极事件的反应。家长和青少年报告青少年的适应情况。结果表明，最大化反应与 1 周后对事件的更强烈感受有关。最小化反应与应对负面事件之外的内化和外化行为有关。研究结果表明，青少年可以最大化或利用积极事件，但最小化则与较差的适应能力有关。我们的研究与现有的成人研究相似，并提供了有关青少年对积极事件的反应的新信息。
This study examined how maximizing and minimizing responses to positive events were associated with sustained positive feelings about the events and adjustment in a community sample of 56 young adolescents (31 boys and 25 girls, 10-14 years of age). On daily reports, adolescents reported their positive emotional reactions to their best event each day. A week later, they reported their responses to their most intense positive event across the 4 days. Parents and adolescents reported on adolescents' adjustment. The results indicated that maximizing responses were related to more intense feelings about the events 1 week later. Minimizing responses were associated with internalizing and externalizing behaviors over and above coping with negative events. The findings indicated that adolescents can maximize or capitalize on positive events but that minimizing is linked to poorer adjustment. Our study parallels existing research with adults and offers new information about young adolescents' responses to positive events.