2011 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 127-134
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotion-focused coping and depression for senior high school students. The participants were 713 students. They completed a battery of questionnaires that contained the dispositional version of the Emotional Coping Questionnaire to measure ways of expressing anger and depressive emotions for emotion-focused coping, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for depression. The hierarchical multiple regression analyses of the data showed that emotional expression to oneself caused depression in men and women. Moreover, the significant interaction between expressions of depressive emotions to others and oneself were obtained for girls. Post-hoc tests for the interaction showed that higher expression to others was associated with lower depression for girls, especially when expression to oneself is lower. Differences in findings between senior high school and university students are discussed.
