Emotions in Adolescents' Everyday Life

For teens in the US aged 13-15 years who speak fluent or proficient English. Caregivers should also speak fluent or proficient English.

This study involves fourteen sessions over three weeks ranging from 5 to 60 minutes. It starts with you scheduling a 60-minute Zoom session that you and your teen will attend with one of our researchers. During this session, your teen will complete a few questionnaires about their home and social life, emotions, and experiences. Your teen will then do an image rating task in which they will view a series of neutral and negative emotional images and rate how the images make them feel. For some of the images, we will ask your teen to reinterpret what is happening in the image to change how the image makes them feel. After the first Zoom session, your teen will complete a short version of the image rating task every day after 5PM on their phone, tablet, or computer. We will send SMS text and email reminders with a link to the task. Following the two weeks of daily tasks, your teen will be sent links for the "end-of-study" set of questionnaires and complete one last image rating task on their own. Lastly, one week after finishing their daily tasks, we will send a set of questionnaires for your teen to complete online on their own.

Previous research shows that teens abilities to process and regulate their emotions undergo considerable change during this period in their lives. Our study hopes to look at how these emotion skills change or stay the same across a brief window of time in their lives. We also want to know how these changes relate to aspects of stress and daily experiences for teens.

This study involves an initial Zoom session, online questionnaires, and multiple daily tasks during the afternoon.

The Zoom session will take approximately 1 hour. Daily image rating tasks will take approximately 5 minutes each day for 13 days. The post-study online questionnaires will take approximately 15 minutes.

Participants can earn up to $60 in Amazon.com gift cards for their participation in all portions of our study. The breakdown for compensation is as follows:

- $10 after initial Zoom session
- $10 after completing daily image tasks
- $20 after second (end of study) virtual questionnaires + image task
- $20 after one-week follow up virtual questionnaires

Compensation is sent within 24 hours of completing each of the milestones listed above via email.