TY - JOUR
T1 - The longitudinal links between shame and increasing hostility during adolescence
AU - Heaven, Patrick C. L.
AU - Ciarrochi, Joseph
AU - Leeson, Peter
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Little research has examined changes in emotional experience in adolescents. We hypothesized that the experience of shame would lead adolescents to become increasingly hostile. We report a one-year longitudinal study involving 765 high school students (392 males and 373 females; mean age = 14.41 yrs) in Grade 9 at Time 1 and 670 students (335 males and 335 females) in Grade 10 at Time 2. Shame and hostility showed high levels of stability over one-year. Structural equation modelling showed that higher shame in Grade 9 was predictive of increases in hostility in Grade 10, whereas hostility was not predictive of increases in shame. These results are discussed with reference to the nature of shame and its potential to provoke antisocial behaviour.
AB - Little research has examined changes in emotional experience in adolescents. We hypothesized that the experience of shame would lead adolescents to become increasingly hostile. We report a one-year longitudinal study involving 765 high school students (392 males and 373 females; mean age = 14.41 yrs) in Grade 9 at Time 1 and 670 students (335 males and 335 females) in Grade 10 at Time 2. Shame and hostility showed high levels of stability over one-year. Structural equation modelling showed that higher shame in Grade 9 was predictive of increases in hostility in Grade 10, whereas hostility was not predictive of increases in shame. These results are discussed with reference to the nature of shame and its potential to provoke antisocial behaviour.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/535220
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 47
SP - 841
EP - 844
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 8
ER -