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Adolescent Daily and General Maladjustment: Is There Reactivity to Daily Repeated Measures Methodologies?
Author(s) -
Nishina Adrienne
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01718.x
Subject(s) - psychology , activities of daily living , developmental psychology , repeated measures design , clinical psychology , psychiatry , mathematics , statistics
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.