The socioemotional costs and benefits of social-evaluative concerns: Do girls care too much?
The socioemotional costs and benefits of social-evaluative concerns: Do girls care too much?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00306.x
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发表时间：
2005-02-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Conley, CS
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作者：
Rudolph, KD;Conley, CS
这项研究调查了这样一个假设：女孩对社会评价的高度关注导致青春期早期抑郁和人际能力的性别差异。对 474 名青少年进行了一项短期纵向研究，以检验社会评价问题加剧的后果。青少年报告了他们的社会评价问题和抑郁症状的水平。教师对青少年与同龄人相处的能力进行评分（亲社会和攻击行为的表现）。正如预期的那样，女孩比男孩表现出更高水平的社会评价关注、抑郁症状和人际交往能力。此外，路径分析证实，社会评价问题的加剧与较高的抑郁水平以及较高的人际能力水平同时和随着时间的推移有关。值得注意的是，社会评价问题完全解释了抑郁症的性别差异，部分解释了人际能力的性别差异。这些发现强调需要考虑与性别相关的关系取向的社会情感成本和收益。
This research investigated the hypothesis that girls' heightened concerns about social evaluation contribute to sex differences in depression and interpersonal competence during early adolescence. A short-term longitudinal study was conducted with 474 adolescents to examine the consequences of heightened social-evaluative concerns. Adolescents reported on their levels of social-evaluative concerns and depressive symptoms. Teachers provided ratings of adolescents' competence with peers (displays of prosocial and aggressive behavior). As anticipated, girls demonstrated higher levels of social-evaluative concerns, depressive symptoms, and interpersonal competence than did boys. Moreover, path analysis confirmed that heightened social-evaluative concerns were associated both concurrently and over time with higher levels of depression, as well as with higher levels of interpersonal competence. Notably, social-evaluative concerns accounted fully for the sex difference in depression and partially for the sex difference in interpersonal competence. These findings highlight the need to consider both the socioemotional costs and benefits of sex-linked relational orientations.