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Perceived Support, Social Undermining, and Emotion: Idiosyncratic and Shared Perspectives of Adolescents and their Families

John W. McCaskill

Ocala, Florida

Brian Lakey

Wayne State University, brian.lakey{at}wayne.edu

Self-report measures of perceived social support and social undermining consistently have been linked to mental health. Such measures of social relations reflect both shared social reality and respondents’ idiosyncratic perceptions, and each of these two components can have different relations to outcomes. This study investigated the extent to which the shared and idiosyncratic components of support and undermining were related to emotion. A clinical sample of 50 adolescents and their family members completed measures of perceived social support and undermining in the family, social desirability, and positive and negative affect. Shared social reality and idiosyncratic perception had different links to emotion depending on the social construct and the emotion. For social undermining, both shared perceptions and adolescents’ idiosyncratic perceptions independently predicted negative affect. For perceived support, only adolescents’ idiosyncratic perceptions predicted positive affect. Consistent with prior research, support was primarily associated with positive affect, whereas social undermining was primarily related to negative affect.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 7, 820-832 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167200269007
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