@article{ref1,
title="The perils of murky emotions: emotion differentiation moderates the prospective relationship between naturalistic stress exposure and adolescent depression",
journal="Emotion",
year="2019",
author="Starr, Lisa R. and Hershenberg, Rachel and Shaw, Zoey A. and Li, Y. Irina and Santee, Angela C.",
volume="",
number="",
pages="-",
abstract="Negative emotion differentiation (NED) refers to the ability to identify and label discrete negative emotions. Low NED has been previously linked to depression and other indices of low psychological well-being. However, this construct has rarely been explored during adolescence, a time of escalating depression risk, or examined in the context of naturalistic stressors. Further, the association between NED and depression has never been tested longitudinally. We propose a diathesis-stress model wherein low NED amplifies the association between stressful life events (SLEs) and depression. A sample of 233 community-recruited midadolescents (Mage 15.90 years, 54% female) completed diagnostic interviews and reported on mood and daily stressors 4 times per day for 7 days. SLEs were assessed using a semistructured interview with diagnosis-blind team coding based on the contextual threat method. Follow-up interviews were conducted 1.5 years after baseline. Low NED was correlated with depression but did not predict prospective changes in depression as a main effect. Confirming predictions and supporting a diathesis-stress model, low NED predicted (a) within-subjects associations between daily hassles and momentary depressed mood, (b) between-subjects associations between SLE severity and depression, and (c) prospective associations between SLE severity and increases in depression at follow-up. <br><br>RESULTS were specific to negative (vs. positive) emotion differentiation. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that low NED is primarily depressogenic in the context of high stress exposure. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1528-3542",
doi="10.1037/emo0000630",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000630"
}