TITLE:
Effects of Inexpressive Aggression on Depression in College Students: Cross Cultural Study between Japan and Russia
AUTHORS:
Takeyasu Kawabata, Ken-ichi Ohbuchi, Svetlana Gurieva, Victoria Dmitrieva, Olga Mikhalyuk, Veronika Odintsova
KEYWORDS:
Social Information Processing, Inexpressive Aggression, Emotion Regulation, Anger, Depression
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.13,
November
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: The aim
of this study is to examine the cross-cultural effects of inexpressive
aggression on depression in terms of emotion regulation in Japanese and Russian
students. Two hundreds and six Japanese students and 243 Russian students read
scenarios depicting socially provocative situations, and asked to rate their
own anger, the other party’s hostile intent and happy emotion, and the extent
in which they would use emotion regulations (distraction, suppress, and
reappraisal), and finally their own other kinds of negative emotions
(melancholy, anxiety, and depression) on a 9-point rating scale. The results
showed that 1) Russians more frequently used suppression as emotion regulation
than Japanese did, and suppression of anger decreased depressive emotions among
Russians but not among Japanese. 2) Japanese would more frequently use
reappraisal than Russians and reappraisal would increase depressive emotions
among Japanese but not among Russians. 3) Distraction increased depressive
emotions both among Japanese and Russian participants. 4) Females used more
emotion regulation and felt more depressive emotions than males in both
samples.