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Links Between Emotion Regulation Strategies and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Chinese American Adolescents
Author(s) -
Karnilowicz Helena Rose,
Mauss Iris,
Zhou Qing
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12723
Subject(s) - psychology , acculturation , chinese americans , developmental psychology , mental health , clinical psychology , adolescent development , orientation (vector space) , immigration , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , history
Adolescents from immigrant families are at risk for psychological health issues due to acculturative stress and the marked increases in internalizing and externalizing problems accompanying adolescence. Emotion Regulation (ER) may be an important protective resource for these adolescents. The present study tested the links between ER and internalizing and externalizing problems in 131 first‐ and second‐generation Chinese American adolescents. Adolescents’ reappraisal was associated with less internalizing and externalizing problems; adolescents’ suppression was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problems. These links were somewhat more pronounced in adolescents high in American cultural orientation as well as in adolescents low in Chinese cultural orientation. Our results advance our understanding of the links between ER and psychological health in Chinese American youth.