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    Anger Suppression and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Women in the United States

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    2010-01-14
    Author
    Chen, Sylvia
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    Abstract
    This study was designed to remedy the current lack of information on the causes of depression among Chinese women in the United States. It is based on an integrated understanding of depression, anger, female gender socialization, acculturation processes, and Chinese cultural values. More specifically, this study aims to investigate the depressive symptoms in this population using a psychoanalytic conceptualization of depression as anger "turn-inward." The researcher hypothesized that after controlling for the effects of female gender role identification and acculturation level, anger suppression has a direct positive effect on depressive symptoms. It was also hypothesized that female gender role identification has a direct positive effect on depressive symptoms. Statistically significant strong positive relationships were found for both relationships. Results also suggested that acculturation level has a direct negative effect on depressive symptoms. However, neither the Chinese culture orientation nor the European American culture orientation was found to have a statistically significant effect on depressive symptoms. It is worth noting that the results of this study revealed that 90% of the variance in depressive symptoms was explained by variables included the path model in this study. Recommendations for future research and clinical practice are also discussed.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-218
    Subject
    Chinese
    Chinese Women
    Anger
    Anger Suppression
    Depression
    Gender Role Identification
    Acculturation
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    Chen, Sylvia (2008). Anger Suppression and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Women in the United States. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -2008 -12 -218.

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