Role of adolescent and maternal depressive symptoms on transactional emotion recognition: Context and state affect matter.

Abstract

Depressive symptomatology is associated with impaired recognition of emotion. Previous investigations have predominantly focused on emotion recognition of static facial expressions neglecting the influence of social interaction and critical contextual factors. In the current study, we investigated how youth and maternal symptoms of depression may be associated with emotion recognition biases during familial interactions across distinct contextual settings. Further, we explored if an individual's current emotional state may account for youth and maternal emotion recognition biases. Mother-adolescent dyads (N = 128) completed measures of depressive symptomatology and participated in three family interactions, each designed to elicit distinct emotions. Mothers and youth completed state affect ratings pertaining to self and other at the conclusion of each interaction task. Using multiple regression, depressive symptoms in both mothers and adolescents were associated with biased recognition of both positive affect (i.e., happy, excited) and negative affect (i.e., sadness, anger, frustration); however, this bias emerged primarily in contexts with a less strong emotional signal. Using actor-partner interdependence models, results suggested that youth's own state affect accounted for depression-related biases in their recognition of maternal affect. State affect did not function similarly in explaining depression-related biases for maternal recognition of adolescent emotion. Together these findings suggest a similar negative bias in emotion recognition associated with depressive symptoms in both adolescents and mothers in real-life situations, albeit potentially driven by different mechanisms.

A two-way street: Mothers’ and adolescent daughters’ depression and PTSD symptoms jointly predict dyadic behaviors.

“…Another possible target is dyadic affect regulation. Using the APIM, Luebbe, Fussner, Kiel, Early, and Bell (2013) found that both mothers' and adolescents' depressive symptoms reduced This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

“…Another possible target is dyadic affect regulation. Using the APIM, Luebbe, Fussner, Kiel, Early, and Bell (2013) found that both mothers’ and adolescents’ depressive symptoms reduced their accuracy in identifying emotional displays in the other person during interactions. Similar impairments are seen with maternal PTSD (Webb & Ayers, 2015).…”

“…In this literature, actor effects are fairly consistent; partner effects are typically smaller and not always evident (Garcia, Kenny, & Ledermann, 2015). Only a few studies have used the APIM to examine parent-adolescent dyads (e.g., Luebbe, Fussner, Kiel, Early, & Bell, 2013), despite the importance and longevity of these relationships.…”

Korean Version of Inventory of Complicated Grief Scale: Psychometric Properties in Korean Adolescents

“…Bereaved individuals who suffer from complicated grief can also exhibit deficits in expressive flexibility ( 9 ). In particular, the recognition of emotion in adolescents is difficult due to immature expression and fluctuation ( 10 ). Therefore, noticing and recognizing the grief reaction in adolescents may be important in the prevention of mental illness.…”

The diverging patterns of life satisfaction between families: A latent profile analysis in dual-earner parents with adolescents

“…This crossover effect, along Family Systems Theory (Kerr & Bowen, 1988), support the expectation of a balanced family, that is, one whose members share similar levels of life satisfaction. On the other hand, there is literature showing no crossover effects from parents to children (Luebbe, Fussner, Kiel, Early, & Bell, 2013) and suggesting that life satisfaction levels can differ among family members (Bedin & Sarriera, 2014;Casas et al, 2012;Chi et al, 2019;Dobewall et al, 2019;Headey et al, 2014;Richter et al, 2018;Schnitzlein & Wunder, 2016). In addition, research shows that satisfaction in specific domains is not homogenous between families (Schnettler et al, 2017a, b;Schnettler et al, 2018a, b;Vieira et al, 2018).…”