Publication details
The development of negative emotions
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter focuses on the development of some of the negative emotions from early to late adolescence, specifically fear and depressed mood. The development of depressed mood in our study was the same as is reported in other relevant studies about current adolescents The slowly rising mean levels of depression, more so in girls, are also in line with the general or lay experience with adolescents. What is worth noting is the high variability of the trajectories meaning that even high or very low levels of depressed mood are normal and not unexpected. Also the development of negative feelings and experiences represented by the development of specific fears corresponds to the expected developmental trends. Experienced fears are shifting from specific, concrete contents to more general and abstract ones; there is an increase in the frequency of pro-social fears related to close persons. On the other hand, the fear of physical threat or danger declines. School fears, specifically fears related to achievement and evaluation remained a constantly highly important facet of adolescent life over the whole period we observed. |
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