Background Depression is associated with problems in social functioning. Impaired
empathic abilities might underlie this association. Empathy is a multidimensional construct …

Theories on children and adolescent emotion dynamics were reviewed using data from 102
ecological momentary assessment studies with 19,928 participants and 689 estimates. We …

Background Informed by the differential susceptibility to media effects model (DSMM), the
current study aims to investigate associations of COVID‐19‐related social media use with …

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent. Symptoms may occur unpredictably (eg, panic
attacks) or predictably in specific situations (eg, social phobia). Consequently, it may be …

A few decades ago, the literature on stress and adjustment was dominated by work that
focused on the effect of major life events on health and psychological functioning. This made …

Neuroticism and several other traits have been proposed to confer vulnerability for unipolar
mood disorders (UMDs) and anxiety disorders (ADs). However, it is unclear whether the …

In the past two decades, the study of mood disorder patients using experience sampling
methods (ESM) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) has yielded important …

Depressive rumination is an emotion regulation strategy that is considered a major risk
factor for depression and other emotional disorders. While well-established measures of trait …

Anxious youth often have trouble regulating negative affect (NA) and tend to over-rely on
parents when faced with challenges. It is unclear how social interactions with parents or …

Abstract Major-depressive-disorder (MDD) and alexithymia have both been associated with
empathy deficits. We examined whether depression and alexithymia show dissociable or …