Prospective associations between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Reappraisal (reconstruing emotional experiences to alter their impact) and suppression (inhibiting emotionally expressive behavior) are emotion-regulation strategies with important implications for depression. While reappraisal generally predicts lower depressive symptoms, suppression generally predicts higher depressive symptoms. Because cultural factors can influence the processes involved in these links and because adolescence-especially for ethnic minority youth-brings particular emotional challenges, it's critical to investigate these links among Mexican-origin adolescents. However, research examining emotion regulation among Mexican-origin individuals is scarce and generally limited to cross-sectional designs. Thus, we examined prospective associations between reappraisal and suppres

SUBMITTER: Young GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9644291 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature