Is Expressive Suppression Always Associated With Poorer Psychological Functioning? A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between European Americans and Hong Kong Chinese

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1450-1455

  Soto, José A ^a   Perez, Christopher R ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^b   Lee, Elizabeth A ^a   Minnick, Mark R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Depression; Emotion regulation; Life satisfaction; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPRESSIVE SUPPRESSION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755172571     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023340     Document Type: Article

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