The development of negative emotions
The development of negative emotions

Author(s): Stanislav Ježek, Radka Michalčáková, Lenka Lacinová, Zuzana Masopustová, Ondřej Bouša
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Self, Evaluation research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Negative emotions; adolescence; cognitive abilities;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter focuses on the development of some of the negative emotions from early to late adolescence, specifically fear and depressed mood. Adolescence appears to be a very emotional time of life. This is an observation of lay people (who have to put up with the adolescents emotions), psychologists (who study them and try to understand), and adolescents themselves (who actually experience them) and thus may appear rather trivial. However, we believe this ubiquity of emotions in the various contexts and perspectives on adolescence is in itself a salient aspect of the phenomenon of adolescence.

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