Rejection Sensitivity and Children's Interpersonal Difficulties

Downey, Geraldine; Lebolt, Amy; Rincón, Claudia; Freitas, Antonio L.

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“…The Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ: Downey, Lebolt, et al, 1998) was employed. It presents children with twelve peerrelated vignettes in which the possibility of rejection exists.…”

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“…Rejection sensitivity in childhood -as defined by this model -is measured by the Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ: Downey, Lebolt, et al, 1998).…”

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“…In Study 2, we used the rejection sensitivity paradigm developed by Downey et al (1998) (Downey, Freitas, et al, 1998;Levy, Ayduk, & Downey, 2002;London, Downey, Bonica, & Paltin, 2007). Rejection sensitivity in childhood -as defined by this model -is measured by the Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ: Downey, Lebolt, et al, 1998).…”

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“…The HSTH necessitates that lonely children's attribution of hostile intention and/or retaliatory aggression to ambiguously motivated social exclusion should be distinctive from the patterns they show to intentionally motivated social and other forms of peer provocation. If these Running Head: LONELINESS AND HYPERVIGILANCE TO SOCIAL THREAT 9 expectations were confirmed, they would undermine negative social perception as an account of the findings.In Study 2, we used the rejection sensitivity paradigm developed by Downey et al (1998) (Downey, Freitas, et al, 1998;Levy, Ayduk, & Downey, 2002;London, Downey, Bonica, & Paltin, 2007). Rejection sensitivity in childhood -as defined by this model -is measured by the Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ: Downey, Lebolt, et al, 1998).…”

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Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children

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Rotenberg

Barrett³

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This series of studies is the first to examine hypervigilance for social threat among lonely children and the first to establish this link using eye-tracking technology. Hypervigilance for social threat was operationalised as hostility to ambiguously motivated social exclusion in a variation of the hostile attribution paradigm (Study 1), scores on the Children's RejectionSensitivity Questionnaire (Study 2), and visual attention to socially threatening stimuli (Study 3). The participants were 185 children (11 years -7 months to 12 years -6 months), 248 children (9 years -4 months to 11 years -8 months) and 147 children (8 years -10 months to 12 years -10 months) in the three studies, respectively. Regression analyses showed that, with depressive symptoms covaried, there were quadratic relations between loneliness and these different measures of hypervigilance to social threat. As hypothesized, only children in the upper range of loneliness demonstrated elevated hostility to ambiguously motivated social exclusion, higher scores on the rejection sensitivity questionnaire, and disengagement difficulties when viewing socially threatening stimuli. We found that very lonely children are hypersensitive to social threat.Key words: Loneliness; Children; Hypervigilance; Social Threat; Rejection; Hypersensitivity, Rejection-sensitivity; Eye movement; Attentional bias.Running Head: LONELINESS AND HYPERVIGILANCE TO SOCIAL THREAT 4 Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely ChildrenResearchers have examined the social information processing biases that serve to maintain loneliness. One such bias is conceptualized as the 'hypervigilance for social threat hypothesis' (HSTH), where it is argued that rejection sensitivity contributes to behavioral deficiencies (e.g., withdrawal) that undermine the opportunities to develop and maintain positive social relationships (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2009). Several studies provide support for the HSTH in adults (Jones & Carver, 1991;Jones, Freemon & Goswick, 1981;Sloan & Solano, 1984), but there has been little work on this in children. Confirming the HSTH during childhood is important because it would indicate that this form of social information bias is evident during development and, therefore, a potential contributor to the persistence of loneliness from childhood through to adulthood, which itself predicts mental and physical health. Loneliness and social information processing biasesLoneliness is an unpleasant state that arises from a discrepancy between the interpersonal relationships people want to have, and those they perceive they currently have (Peplau & Perlman, 1982). Loneliness is not linked to the number of friends that a person has (Young, 1982;Qualter & Munn, 2005). It is a prevalent problem in children, adolescents and adults (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Rotenberg & Hymel, 1999), and is acknowledged in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR: American Psychiatric Association, 2000) because it often causes significant distress a...

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“…Rejection sensitivity in childhood -as defined by this model -is measured by the Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ: Downey, Lebolt, et al, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children

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“…Rejection sensitivity-The Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (Downey, Lebolt, Rincon, & Freitas, 1998) scale consists of 12 hypothetical social situations for which the child rates the extent to which he or she would anxiously expect rejection. For example, children are asked to imagine that they "had a really bad fight the other day with a friend" and then rate whether the friend would want to talk to them and listen to their problem.…”

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Cognitive Features Associated With Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Directionality and Specificity

McCarty

Stoep

McCauley

2007

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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In this study we examined cognitive features that have been posited to contribute to depressive vulnerability in adolescents. Using a longitudinal sample of 331 young adolescents followed from 6th to 7th grade, cross-lagged structural equation analyses were conducted. Controlling for baseline levels of depressive, conduct, and anxiety symptoms, low self-worth was associated with a vulnerability to both depressive symptoms and conduct problems, whereas rejection sensitivity was uniquely predictive of increases in anxiety. In support of cognitive "scar" models, baseline depressive and conduct problems were both predictive of a more negative attributional style. Depressive symptoms also predicted more rejection sensitivity, whereas conduct problems predicted lower selfesteem.

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Individualism, collectivism, and Chinese adolescents' aggression: intracultural variations

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Aggressive Behavior

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This study examined the relations between cultural values (i.e., individualism and collectivism) and aggression among 460 (234 girls) Chinese adolescents. Conflict level and social status insecurity were examined as potential explaining mechanisms for these relations. The results showed that adolescents' endorsement of collectivism was negatively related to their use of overt and relational aggression as reported by teachers and peers, whereas positive associations were found between the endorsement of individualism and adolescent aggression. Adolescents' conflict level and social status insecurity accounted for a significant part of these associations. Findings of this study demonstrate the importance of examining intracultural variations of cultural values in relation to adolescent aggression as well as the process variables in explaining the relations.

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Rejection Sensitivity and Children's Interpersonal Difficulties

Cited by 96 publications

References 18 publications

Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children

Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children

Cognitive Features Associated With Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Directionality and Specificity

Individualism, collectivism, and Chinese adolescents' aggression: intracultural variations

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