title: Cultural Differences in the Reciprocal Relations between Emotion Suppression Coping, Depressive Symptoms and Interpersonal Functioning among Adolescents.
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.
authors.affiliation: California State University, San Marcos, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Rd, San Marcos, CA, 92096, USA. wtsai@csusm.edu.
authors.forename: William
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-2237
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: D Julie
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
authors.forename: Bahr
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.affiliation: RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ngo
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Anna S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Lau
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000208:ethnology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D044465:White People / Q000208:ethnology*
keywords: Adolescence; Emotion suppression; Ethnicity; Well-being