[Anger expressive behaviors and its inhibitory factors in Japanese junior high school students: from the aspect to narcissism and norms].
This study investigated inhibitory factors in anger expressive behaviors among Japanese junior high school students. It also examined the relations between anger experiences and personality traits: verbal expression and narcissism. The result indicated that the factors of "friend relationships" and "cost-reward consciousness" were selected as those which inhibited anger expressive behaviors. Results of a covariance structure analysis were as follows. First, narcissistic personality elicited feelings of anger and depression and cognitions of inflating and calming, which all facilitated aggressive behavior, social sharing, and object-displacement as anger expressive behaviors. Second, verbal expression elicited cognitions of objectifying and self-reproaching, and the former inhibited anger expressive behaviors, though the latter facilitated them. Finally, "cost-reward consciousness" inhibited anger expressive behaviors for boys, while "normative consciousness" inhibited them for girls.
Hibino
Kei
K
Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba. hibino@human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Yukawa
Shintaro
S
Kodama
Masahiro
M
Yoshida
Fujio
F
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000786:Anger; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D010551:Personality; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012919:Social Behavior