Trait negative affectivity and trait extraversion/positive affectivity are predictive of both responses to affect and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Furthermore, differences in the use of responses to affect are associated with different levels of depressive symptoms. Despite the central role of media content in adolescents’ daily lives, responses to affect have not yet been extended to affect in this media content. It is thus unclear whether trait affectivity is predictive of responses to affective media content, and whether such media response styles are predictive of depressive symptoms. A 3-wave longitudinal panel study with 3-month intervals among 318 adolescents (Mage = 16.5 years, SDage = 1.11, 72.5% boys) investigated the mediating role of media response styles in associations between trait affectivity and depressive symptoms. Trait negative affectivity predicted media rumination and media dampening, yet only media rumination predicted greater levels of depressive symptoms over time. Trait positive affectivity was associated with concurrent media distraction and media-enhancing. The media response styles did not mediate the associations between trait affectivity and depressive symptoms over time. These findings suggest that individuals higher in trait negative affectivity tend to engage in maladaptive emotion regulation strategies during sad media content consumption, whereas adolescents higher in trait positive affectivity turn to more adaptive strategies during sad or happy media content consumption. Yet, media response styles are not robustly associated with depressive symptoms over time.

特质消极情感和特质外向/积极情感可以预测青春期对情感和抑郁症状的反应。此外，使用情感反应的差异与不同程度的抑郁症状有关。尽管媒体内容在青少年的日常生活中发挥着核心作用，但对情感的反应尚未扩展到影响该媒体内容。因此，尚不清楚特质情感是否可以预测对情感媒体内容的反应，以及这种媒体反应风格是否可以预测抑郁症状。在 318 名青少年（M年龄 = 16.5 岁，SD年龄 = 1.11，72.5% 男孩）调查了媒体反应风格在特质情感和抑郁症状之间的关联中的中介作用。特质消极情感预示着媒体沉思和媒体抑制，但只有媒体沉思预示着随着时间的推移会出现更大程度的抑郁症状。特质积极情感与同时发生的媒体分心和媒体增强有关。随着时间的推移，媒体反应风格并没有调解特质情感和抑郁症状之间的关联。这些发现表明，负面情感特质较高的个体在悲伤的媒体内容消费期间倾向于采用适应不良的情绪调节策略，而正面情感特质较高的青少年在悲伤或快乐的媒体内容消费期间转向更具适应性的策略。然而，