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Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity
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Adolescence is a time of transition from childhood to adulthood during which significant changes occur across multiple domains, including emotional experience. This article reviews the relevant literature on adolescents’ experience of four specific dimensions of emotion: emotional frequency, intensity, instability, and clarity. In an effort to examine how emotional experiences change as individuals approach adulthood, we examine these dimensions across ages 10 to 19, and review how the emotional functioning of adolescents compares to that of adults. In addition, we explore whether and how gender and puberty explain age differences in emotional experience. Finally, we discuss how these findings could inform future research on both the typical trajectory of emotional experience and the development of psychopathology in adolescence.
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“This is due in part, to the physical and chemical changes occurring in the brain from early adolescence, which result in a ‘neural mismatch’ whereby emotionality is heightened in response to real and/or perceived stressors (Bailen et al. 2019), yet the self-regulatory system required to manage these emotions remains largely underdeveloped until early adulthood (Somerville et al. 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bailen, N. H., Green, L. M., & Thompson, R. J.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bailen, Natasha H.
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-08-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 63-73
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- OpenAlex
- W2886249191
- Cited by
- 427
- References
- 107
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 73 · 2024: 90 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 7
- FWCI
- 18.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- adolescent emotions, emotional intensity, neuroticism, emotional clarity, age differences, gender differences, puberty, coming of age, emotional development, adolescent psychopathology
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