SUBJECTIVE EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY IN ADOLES CENTS - PERSONALITY, BEHAVIORAL, AND COGNITIVE CORRELATES

Relations between well-being, operationalized by Subjective Emotional Reactivity Questionnaire (DEP36), and Eysenck's personality dimensions (JEPQ, 16), Moos' Family Environment Scale, Teacher-Child Rating Scal e were analyzed using multiple linear regression models and ANCOVA. Ap art from personality questionnaire, data were collected three-times du ring ninemonth interval on a sample of 14-year-old 323 boys and 248 gi rls. Due to absence of children and teachers from school, missing resp onses, and technical problems in cooperation with some schools, only 9 7 boys and 98 girls had complete data from the three measurements. The study based on the data from the first measurement supported an assum ption of relation between relatively stable dimensions of positive and negative emotion reactivity and dimensions of extraversion, neurotici sm, L-scale, impulsiveness, and empathy. The values obtained by the DE P36 was found reliable as a predictor of children social and task orie nted behavior at school and their perception of family mainly from the cohesiveness and family interrelations point of view. Intraindividual variability of emotional reactivity during nine-month interval estima ted on the data from reduced sample seems to be rather weak predictor of intensity and intraindividual variability of both behavior and cogn itive processing of social information from family environment. The fi ndings indicate that subjective emotional reactivity might be importan t aspect of positive health. The indicated relation to hereditary temp eramental trait is not strong enough to eliminate the possibility of s ubjective emotional interpretation style change and it could be expect ed that emotional sensitivity training might play central role in prim ary prevention programs.