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The Blues of Adolescent Romance: Observed Affective Interactions in Adolescent Romantic Relationships Associated with Depressive Symptoms

Overview of attention for article published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, October 2013
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Title
The Blues of Adolescent Romance: Observed Affective Interactions in Adolescent Romantic Relationships Associated with Depressive Symptoms
Published in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, October 2013
DOI 10.1007/s10802-013-9808-y
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Thao Ha, Thomas J. Dishion, Geertjan Overbeek, William J. Burk, Rutger C. M. E. Engels

Abstract

We examined the associations between observed expressions of positive and negative emotions during conflict discussions and depressive symptoms during a 2-year period in a sample of 160 adolescents in 80 romantic relationships (M age = 15.48, SD = 1.16). Conflict discussions were coded using the 10-code Specific Affect Coding System. Depressive symptoms were assessed at the time of the observed conflict discussions (Time 1) and 2 years later (Time 2). Data were analyzed using actor-partner interdependence models. Girls' expression of both positive and negative emotions at T1 was related to their own depressive symptoms at T2 (actor effect). Boys' positive emotions and negative emotions (actor effect) and girls' negative emotions (partner effect) were related to boys' depressive symptoms at T2. Contrary to expectation, relationship break-up and relationship satisfaction were unrelated to changes in depressive symptoms or expression of negative or positive emotion during conflict discussion. These findings underscore the unique quality of adolescent romantic relationships and suggest new directions in the study of the link between mental health and romantic involvement in adolescence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 62 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 14%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 6%
Other 13 21%
Unknown 14 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 48%
Social Sciences 7 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 19 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2016.
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#14,915,133
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
#1,159
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#117,423
of 220,419 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
#15
of 33 outputs
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