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Cultural Differences in the Reciprocal Relations between Emotion Suppression Coping, Depressive Symptoms and
William Tsai1, D Julie Nguyen2, Bahr Weiss3
1California State University, San Marcos, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Rd, San Marcos, CA, 92096, USA. wtsai@csusm.edu.
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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