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Ethnic variation in the impact of emotion and emotion regulation on health
— a replication and extension | | Author(s) | Nathan S Consedine, Carol Magai, David Horton |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp P165-P173 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Older women ; Emotions ; Aggression ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although emotion and emotion regulation are central to models linking personality and health, how these models can be generalised to diverse populations of older people remains untested. In this study, 1,364 community-dwelling women aged 50-70 living in Brooklyn, New York and from six ethnic groups, completed self-report measures of trait anger, inhibition, defensiveness, and health. As expected reports of trait anger and emotion inhibition predicted poorer health (and defensiveness better health) even when demographic and health behaviours were controlled. However, these characteristics related to outcome differently across ethnic groups; greater age was related to better health in all groups other than US born European Americans, and increased emotion inhibition was associated with better health among immigrant eastern European women. Results are discussed within a contextual model of emotion and health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121512 A |
| Classmark | TK: BD: DL: EPB: CC: 49: 7T |
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