title: Social stress in early adolescents' daily lives: Associations with affect and loneliness.
abstract: Adolescence is characterized by increased social stress due to changes in interpersonal relationships, but little is known about daily experiences of social stress. The aim of the present study was to examine daily life predictors of increases in social stress, how these increases affected adolescents' mood, and whether loneliness moderated these relations. The Experience Sampling Method was used to measure positive and negative affect and increases in social stress in 278 early adolescents from the Netherlands. Results showed that adolescents were most likely to experience increases in social stress when they were with classmates, during week days, and in the morning. Lonely adolescents showed higher increases in social stress and responded more negatively to increases in social stress, compared to non-lonely adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Interdisciplinary Center of Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: g.h.van.roekel@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: Eeske
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Roekel
authors.affiliation: Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Thao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Maaike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verhagen
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Addiction Switzerland, Research Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuntsche
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ron H J
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Scholte
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rutger C M E
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Engels
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Affect; Early adolescence; Experience sampling method; Loneliness; Social stress