Emotional differentiation and mental health of adolescents: A literature review

Yixin Zhang

doi:10.54691/bcpssh.v19i.1732

Authors

Yixin Zhang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v19i.1732

Keywords:

Teenagers, Emotional differentiation, Mental health

Abstract

Adolescents are in the stage of frequent mental health problems, it is of great practical significance to pay attention to the mental health of teenagers. Affective differentiation refers to people's perception of subdivided emotions, which is believed to be closely related to people's mental health. However, little is known about the relationship between adolescents' mental health factors and emotional differentiation. In this regard, this paper aims to clarify the relationship between emotional differentiation of adolescents and different mental health factors through literature review and sorting, and based on this, put forward protective measures for adolescent mental health from different levels. This paper has important implications for promoting the emotional differentiation and mental health development of adolescents.

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