An Emotion Recognition–Awareness Vulnerability Hypothesis for Depression in Adolescence: A Systematic Review

In this systematic review, we examined the evidence for an adolescent emotion recognition-awareness vulnerability to depression. The current review provided a qualitative synthesis of the emotion recognition (26 studies) and emotion awareness (38 studies) literatures for adolescent depression and was grounded within the framework of affective social competence (Halberstadt et al. in Soc Dev 10:79-119, 2001). It was hypothesized that deficits or...