title: Adolescent daily and general maladjustment: is there reactivity to daily repeated measures methodologies?
abstract: The present study examined whether repeated exposure to daily surveys about negative social experiences predicts changes in adolescents' daily and general maladjustment, and whether question content moderates these changes. Across a 2-week period, 6th-grade students (N = 215; mode age = 11) completed 5 daily reports tapping experienced or experienced and witnessed negative events, or they completed no daily reports. General maladjustment was measured in 2-week intervals before, at the end of, and 2 weeks after the daily report study. Daily maladjustment either decreased or did not change across the 5 daily report exposures. General maladjustment decreased across the three 2-week intervals. Combined, results indicate that short-term daily report studies do not place youth at risk for increased maladjustment.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. anishina@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishina
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D058445:Bullying; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires