Increased scientific understanding explains why transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth report more mental health concerns than their cisgender peers. However, the emotional processes of TGNC youth have not been assessed beyond mental health diagnoses. Our aim in this study was to investigate how TGNC youth understand, experience, and label their emotional experiences. We conduced a two-tiered qualitative analysis of 20 predominantly White TGNC youths, ages 7–18 years, resulting in the creation of the appraisal, valence, arousal theory of emotions. Within the theory, emotions are categorized in four quadrants: Reflective/Unpleasant, Anticipatory/Unpleasant, Reflective/Pleasant, and Anticipatory/Pleasant. Results indicated that the majority of TGNC youths’ emotions were located in the Reflective/Unpleasant and Reflective/Pleasant quadrants. The current study highlights TGNC youths’ appraisal of emotions and the potential impact on youths’ cognitive and emotional processes. Interventions should attend to pleasant and unpleasant aspects of emotions while also focusing on youths’ understanding of the context of their emotions.

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跨性别和性别不顺从青年的情绪：评价、效价、唤醒模型

越来越多的科学理解解释了为什么跨性别和性别不合格 (TGNC) 青年比他们的顺性别同龄人报告更多的心理健康问题。然而，除了心理健康诊断之外，TGNC 青年的情绪过程尚未得到评估。我们在这项研究中的目的是调查 TGNC 青年如何理解、体验和标记他们的情感体验。我们对 20 名 7-18 岁的白人 TGNC 青年进行了两层定性分析，从而创建了情绪的评价、效价、唤醒理论。在该理论中，情绪分为四个象限：反思/不愉快、预期/不愉快、反思/愉快和预期/愉快。结果表明，大多数TGNC青少年的情绪位于反思/不愉快和反思/愉快象限。目前的研究强调了 TGNC 青少年对情绪的评价以及对青少年认知和情绪过程的潜在影响。干预措施应关注情绪的愉快和不愉快方面，同时还应关注青少年对其情绪背景的理解。