Emotion suppression in multiple social contexts and its effects on psychosocial functioning: An investigation with Chinese samples

Zhou, Ting; Shang, Zhe; Wang, Dengfeng

doi:10.1111/ajsp.12149

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“…Future research that includes social context (e.g., suppression with strangers vs. with family) as a moderator is needed. For instance, Zhou, Shang, and Wang () found that the suppression of happiness was associated with greater depressive symptoms among close relationships (e.g., with family), but not among distant relationships (e.g., with strangers). Furthermore, more research among populations with chronic illness are needed because they often experience persistent emotional distress that stems from their diagnoses.…”

Section: Taking Stock and Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, emotion suppression and disclosure, and health

Tsai

Lü

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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Researchers have examined cultural differences in the psychological and physiological health consequences of emotion suppression. The goal of this review is to clarify the state of the science on this growing area of research by summarizing patterns of findings, identifying limitations, and providing recommendations for future research. First, we review the framework that provides the theoretical foundation for explaining cultural differences, and then we present findings on how culture influences the psychological and physiological health consequences of emotion suppression. Next, we review the expressive writing intervention as a culturally sensitive intervention that facilitates emotion disclosure for cultural groups that prioritize emotional restraint. Finally, we end by providing theoretical and methodological recommendations for future research.

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Section: Taking Stock and Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, emotion suppression and disclosure, and health

Tsai

Lü

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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“…As an emerging infectious disease, much is still unknown about how the COVID-19 spreads, so it is easy to cause panic and psychological problems. A population-based cross-sectional study [16] explored the psychological reaction of people in China in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, and found that the rates of moderate and severe anxiety among volunteers ghting the epidemic in were 32.7% and 20.4% in Wuhan and Shanghai, respectively, suggesting that during the rising stage of the outbreak, the physical and mental reactions of the masses were signi cant. In order to win this battle, the health care workers in…”

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Analysis on mental health status and needs of health care workers in designated medical institutions of tuberculosis during the epidemic period of COVID-19

Fang

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Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly in China and other overseas areas, which has aroused widespread concern. The sharp increase in the number of patients has led to great psychological pressure on health care workers. The purpose of this study is to understand their mental health status and needs, so as to provide a scientific basis for alleviating the psychological pressure of health care workers.Methods Using a cross-sectional study design, 511 health care workers were randomly selected from two designated tuberculosis medical institutions in Anhui Province. The basic situation, perceived social support, depression level, loneliness and COVID-19 related knowledge were collected and analyzed by questionnaire.Results There were 139 people in epidemic prevention and control positions (27.20%). Depression level: female was higher than male; nurse was higher than doctor; middle and junior job titles were higher than senior titles; junior college degree or below were higher than bachelor's degree, master's degree and above; isolation ward, fever clinic and pre-check triage were significantly higher than those of non-prevention and control positions (P < 0.05). Loneliness scores: doctors were higher than that of medical technicians, and isolation ward, fever clinic and pre-check triage were higher than those of non-prevention and control positions (P < 0.05). Social support: doctors were lower than that of medical technicians, and isolation ward, fever clinic and pre-check triage were significantly lower than those of non-prevention and control positions (P < 0.05). The score of social support was negatively correlated with depression and loneliness (P < 0.001), while depression was positively correlated with loneliness (P < 0.001). Health care workers most want to receive one-to-one psychological counseling (29.75%), and provide crisis management (24.07%). The awareness rate of health care workers on COVID-19's knowledge was relatively high.Conclusions The psychological problems of health care workers, especially women, nurses with low educational background, low professional title, and staff in the epidemic prevention and control positions are relatively serious. We should focus on this population, and take targeted intervention measures.

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“…While some studies indicate no gender differences in the types of coping strategies used, others found that Chinese women were more likely to seek external help for handling stressors, whereas Chinese men rely on themselves to solve problems (Chan, 1994). This finding suggests relatively greater willingness for Chinese women to express negative emotions in a help-seeking context, but this might not generalize to other contexts given the complex situation-specific cultural rules for appropriate expression of emotion (Chiang, 2012; Zhou et al, 2016). Gender-role socialization and masculinity norms may make the expression of tender emotions more stressful for men, which in turn may impair their psychological well-being (Yeung, Mak, & Cheung, 2015), but here too the context and content of expression might matter.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Emotional Approach Copingmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Perhaps the role of emotion-focused coping differs as well. Suppression might be as common as expression, and culture influences the effect of suppression on psychological functioning (e.g., Soto et al, 2011; Su, Lee, & Oishi, 2013; Zhou, Shang, & Wang, 2016). Soto et al (2011) found that Chinese students reported using suppression more than their European American counterparts did, and unlike the Americans, suppression was apparently unrelated to their depression or life satisfaction.…”

Section: Chinese Copingmentioning

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The Emotional Approach Coping Scales in Chinese: Validation, Psychometric Properties, and Measurement Invariance

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American and Chinese literatures on emotion-focused coping show inconsistent associations with distress, attributable to criterion contamination problems with measures. This problem was remedied by the American Emotional Approach Coping (EAC) scales, which are not confounded with distress; however, there is no Chinese counterpart. The EAC is of theoretical interest for exploring cross-cultural models of psychological and physical health since it allows one to measure emotion processing (theoretically lowering distress) without emotion expression (maintaining collectivist group harmony). In the present study, the EAC scales were translated into Chinese and their factorial, criterion, and discriminant validity as well as measurement invariance of the two versions were examined in 353 Chinese and 491 Americans. Previous validational findings for American EAC scales were replicated and configural and metric invariance demonstrated, supporting the comparable reliability and validity of the Chinese EAC scales. Chinese showed fewer gender differences than Americans.

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Emotion suppression in multiple social contexts and its effects on psychosocial functioning: An investigation with Chinese samples

Cited by 16 publications

References 44 publications

Culture, emotion suppression and disclosure, and health

Culture, emotion suppression and disclosure, and health

Analysis on mental health status and needs of health care workers in designated medical institutions of tuberculosis during the epidemic period of COVID-19

The Emotional Approach Coping Scales in Chinese: Validation, Psychometric Properties, and Measurement Invariance

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