Tsarpalis-Fragkoulidis, Achilleas and Kolar, David R. and Schneckenreiter, Carmen and Zemp, Martina (2025) Social Anxiety and Emotion Regulation in the Everyday Life of Adolescents. KINDHEIT UND ENTWICKLUNG, 34 (3). pp. 150-161. ISSN 0942-5403, 2190-6246
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Theoretical background: Social anxiety during adolescence is often linked to deficits in emotion regulation, which can contribute to heightened negative affect and diminished positive affect in everyday life. Objective: This study investigated whether three emotion-regulation strategies - acceptance, suppression, and rumination - mediate the relationship between social anxiety and daily affect in adolescents. Method: A sample of 47 adolescents completed ecological momentary assessments over 14 days. Social anxiety was assessed as a trait, while daily positive and negative affect as well as emotion regulation strategies were measured multiple times per day. Results: Multilevel structural equation models showed that social anxiety was significantly associated with lower acceptance of positive and negative emotions, higher suppression of negative emotions, and increased rumination. Acceptance of positive emotions mediated the link between social anxiety and reduced positive affect, while rumination mediated the link with negative affect. Discussion and conclusion: These findings underscore the importance of addressing both positive and negative emotional experiences and their regulation in the field of social anxiety in adolescents. Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Soziale & Auml;ngste im Jugendalter h & auml;ngen h & auml;ufig mit Emotionsregulationsdefiziten zusammen, was zu verst & auml;rktem negativem Affekt und verringertem positivem Affekt im Alltag f & uuml;hren kann. Fragestellung: In dieser Studie wurde untersucht, ob Akzeptanz, Unterdr & uuml;ckung und Rumination den Zusammenhang zwischen sozialer Angst und Affekt bei Jugendlichen mediieren. Methode: 47 Jugendliche nahmen & uuml;ber 14 Tage an einer Tagebuchstudie teil. Ergebnisse: Multilevel Strukturgleichungsmodelle zeigten, dass soziale Angst mit geringerer Akzeptanz von positiven und negativen Emotionen sowie vermehrter Rumination und Unterdr & uuml;ckung negativer Emotionen verbunden war. Die Akzeptanz positiver Emotionen vermittelte die Beziehung zwischen sozialer Angst und reduziertem positivem Affekt, Rumination den Zusammenhang mit negativem Affekt. Diskussion und Schlussfolgerung: Diese Befunde verdeutlichen die Relevanz der Regulation positiver und negativer Emotionen im Jugendalter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PHOBIA INVENTORY SPIN; POSITIVE EVALUATION; DEPRESSION; RUMINATION; CHILDHOOD; VALIDITY; TRAIT; FEAR; INTERVENTIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; social anxiety; emotion regulation; positivity impairment; adolescence; ecological momentary assessment; soziale Angst; Emotionsregulation; Adoleszenz; Tagebuchstudie |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy – Prof. Dr. David Kolar |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2026 06:41 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2026 06:41 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66310 |
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