A Review on the Development of Adolescents’ Emotion Differentiation Ability

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_114How to use a DOI?

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emotion; emotion differentiation; adolescents; development

Abstract

Emotions involve in humans’ daily life and play a key role when individuals respond to important events. When individuals experience complex emotions, they need to first identify and differentiate between these emotions, which helps them find an appropriate method to cope with emotions appropriately. This is the ability to categorize different emotions, which is termed emotion differentiation. Adolescents are particularly needed to develop the ability to differentiate emotions, as they are more likely to suffer from puberty anxiety or other emotional issues. In this article, I discussed the significance of emotion differentiation to adolescents and identified two bases that are significant in developing adolescents’ ability of emotion differentiation. I write a literature review by searching and reading relevant papers. According to previous studies, I found that developing this ability needs social learning, which means teenagers can develop emotion differentiation through interacting with their parents, teachers, and peers. Emotional processing also requires individuals’ maturity at the biological level. Hence, to effectively develop an adolescent’s emotion differentiation, teachers or parents should also consider the developmental stage of teenagers’ brains. In conclusion, teenagers’ ability to differentiate emotions can be promoted in social interactions, such as healthy parent-child relationships, school counseling, and peer support. Additionally, neural studies show that the cultivation of adolescents’ emotion differentiation follows the developing progress of their limbic subcortical areas and prefrontal cortical regions, which respectively serve for emotional processing and cognitive control.

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AU  - Wenrui Yu
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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