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dc.contributor.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J
dc.contributor.authorSkinner, Ellen A
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-23T12:30:27Z
dc.date.available2018-07-23T12:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0140-1971
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.09.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/101614
dc.description.abstractWe examined adjustment problems as risks for patterns of emotions, appraisals, and coping with rejection, and explored whether these processes could account for sex (boy/girl) differences in coping. Young adolescents (N = 669, grades 6–8) completed questionnaires, which assessed responses to peer rejection threat with two short scenarios. Using structural equation modeling to test a multivariate process model, adolescents with heightened social anxiety had the most maladaptive responses to rejection threat, including elevated emotional reactions, more self-blame, and coping using more social isolation, rumination and opposition. Adolescents reporting more depressive symptoms felt less control and anticipated using less adaptive coping (less support seeking, distraction, and negotiation), whereas aggressive adolescents responded with more anger and coped via opposition. Moreover, as anticipated, sex differences in coping, symptoms, emotions, and appraisals were found. However, coping differences between boys and girls were mostly nonsignificant after accounting for symptoms, aggression, emotional reactions, and appraisals.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom149
dc.relation.ispartofpageto159
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Adolescence
dc.relation.ispartofvolume45
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDevelopmental Psychology and Ageing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode170102
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.titleAdolescent vulnerability and the distress of rejection: Associations of adjustment problems and gender with control, emotions, and coping
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie


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