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Ravneet Kaur
Ramanjit
Background: Adolescence is a time of significant developmental transition. They experience numerous developmental challenges, including increasing need for independence, transitioning through education and negotiating changing relationships with family, peers and a healthy identity. During this phase, adolescents use to have different emotions; one of the major consequences of alteration in expression of emotion properly is deficient affect. This will further lead to development of various psychiatric disorders. Affect regulation has been defined as “the ability to tolerate, be aware of, put into words, and use emotions adaptively, to regulate distress and promote needs and goals. Thus, it is very important t o learn affect regulation strategies to regulate deficient affect. Aim of the study To assess the effect of affect regulation strategies on affect regulation among adolescents with deficient affect. Materials and methods Quantitative research approach and pre-experimental research design was used. The sample of 80 adolescents with deficient affect from a selected school of district Hoshiarpur, Punjab was taken with purposive sampling technique. The modified self -report affect regulation checklist was ad ministered to the adolescents with deficient affect to collect data. The comparison between pre and post affect regulation scores was compared by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results The results revealed that in Pre -test that half of the adolescents i.e. 53.75% were having restricted affect followed by 41.25% were with blunted affect and 5% having appropriate affect and in posttest majority of adolescents i.e. 72.5% were having appropr iate affect, followed by 26.25% with restricted affect and a few i.e. 1.25% are having blunted affect. The post- test affect regulation mean scores i.e. (16.74) were more than that of pre - test mean scores (10.51). The difference was tested by ‘t’ test and found statistically significant at 0.001 level of significance. The findings led to the rejection of null hypothesis.
Keywords: Affect regulation, Deficient affect