Self-construals and social anxiety among Asian American college students: Testing emotion suppression as a mediator

Asian American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-50

  Park, Irene J K ^a   Sulaiman, Crystalia ^a,f   Schwartz, Seth J ^b   Kim, Su Yeong ^c   Ham, Lindsay S ^d   Zamboanga, Byron L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Asian American; emotion suppression; interdependent and independent self construals; social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953876833     PISSN: 19481985     EISSN: 19481993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023183     Document Type: Article

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