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28-07-2016

Cultural Differences in the Reciprocal Relations between Emotion Suppression Coping, Depressive Symptoms and Interpersonal Functioning among Adolescents

Auteurs: William Tsai, D. Julie Nguyen, Bahr Weiss, Victoria Ngo, Anna S. Lau

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 4/2017

Abstract

The current study examined the prospective relations between emotion suppression and maladjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, family stress events, peer stress events, and family and peer support) among Vietnamese American (n = 372) and European American adolescents (n = 304). We found that at baseline Vietnamese Americans adolescents reported greater use of emotion suppression coping than European American adolescents. Multi-group structural equation modeling indicated that for European American teens emotion suppression was significantly related to increased depression symptoms and decreased quality of peer relationships. In contrast, for the Vietnamese Americans teens emotion suppression relations to later maladjustment was either nonsignificant or attenuated relative to the European American. These findings suggest ethnic group differences in both the utilization, and consequences and function of emotion suppression among Vietnamese American and European American adolescents.

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Although not part of the study design, these students were included because administrators in two schools required that we extend the research opportunity to all students regardless of ethnicity.

We examined potential gender differences. We found that the cross-lagged path from T1 emotion suppression to T2 depressive symptoms was significant for males (β = 0.11, p < 0.05) but not significant for females (β = 0.08, p = ns). A model with a multi-group constraint on this parameter did not differ in fit compared to the initial unconstrained model, indicating that the estimates were not significantly different across groups. Across the models testing associations between emotion suppression and other outcomes (e.g., family support), there were no differences between path estimates for males versus females.

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Titel: Cultural Differences in the Reciprocal Relations between Emotion Suppression Coping, Depressive Symptoms and Interpersonal Functioning among Adolescents
Auteurs: William Tsai
D. Julie Nguyen
Bahr Weiss
Victoria Ngo
Anna S. Lau
Publicatiedatum: 28-07-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 4/2017
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0192-2

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