title: Suppression Benefits Boys in Taiwan: The Relation between Gender, Emotional Regulation Strategy, and Mental Health.
abstract: Emotion regulation (ER) strategies have a clear impact on mental health outcomes. In 2 studies (N= 695,N= 433) we investigated gender differences in the use of 2 ER strategies (reappraisal and suppression) to handle parent-child conflict in Taiwanese adolescents. We also identified the implications of these differences for some negative emotions (self-blame and resentment) and internalizing problems (psychosomatic symptoms and social withdrawal). Results of the correlation analyses in both studies indicated that reappraisal and suppression ER strategies are positively correlated only in male Taiwanese adolescents. Hierarchical regression analyses in the second study confirmed that reappraisal buffers male but not female adolescents against the negative effects of suppression on the arousal of negative affect and internalizing problems.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Ethnology, Academia SinicaTaipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychology, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Kuang-Hui
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Macau Taipa, Macau.
authors.forename: Olwen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bedford
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chih-Wen
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shu-Yi
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Nai-Shing
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Yen
keywords: Chinese culture; adolescents; emotion regulation; gender differences; internalizing problems; negative affect; reappraisal; suppression