Emotion Dysregulation as a Mechanism Linking Stress Exposure to Adolescent Aggressive Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Herts, Kate L.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.
Titel	Emotion Dysregulation as a Mechanism Linking Stress Exposure to Adolescent Aggressive Behavior
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40 (2012) 7, S.1111-1122 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-012-9629-4
Schlagwörter	Aggression; Structural Equation Models; Adolescents; Organizations (Groups); Victims of Crime; Information Processing; Correlation; Behavior Problems; Violence; Peer Relationship; Longitudinal Studies; Prevention; Child Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Informationsverarbeitung; Korrelation; Gewalt; Peer-Beziehungen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Kinderpsychologie
Abstract	Exposure to stress is associated with a wide range of internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescents, including aggressive behavior. Extant research examining mechanisms underlying the associations between stress and youth aggression has consistently identified social information processing pathways that are disrupted by exposure to violence and increase risk of aggressive behavior. In the current study, we use longitudinal data to examine emotion dysregulation as a potential mechanism linking a broader range of stressful experiences to aggressive behavior in a diverse sample of early adolescents (N = 1065). Specifically, we examined the longitudinal associations of peer victimization and stressful life events with emotion dysregulation and aggressive behavior. Structural equation modeling was used to create latent constructs of emotion dysregulation and aggression. Both stressful life events and peer victimization predicted subsequent increases in emotion dysregulation over a 4-month period. These increases in emotion dysregulation, in turn, were associated with increases in aggression over the subsequent 3 months. Longitudinal mediation models showed that emotion dysregulation mediated the relationship of both peer victimization (z = 2.35, p = 0.019) and stressful life events (z = 2.32, p = 0.020) with aggressive behavior. Increasing the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies is an important target for interventions aimed at preventing the onset of adolescent aggressive behavior. (As Provided).
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