Dimensions Across Measures of Dispositional Hostility, Expressive Style, and Depression Show Some Variation by Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Young Adults
| Autor: | Shari R. Waldstein, Karl J. Maier, Paul P. Giggey, Layne A. Goble, Edward C. Suarez, Serina A. Neumann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Agreeableness
Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject education Ethnic group Hostility Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology Cynicism behavior and behavior mechanisms medicine Assertiveness Young adult medicine.symptom Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Depression (differential diagnoses) Negativism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 28:1199-1225 |
| ISSN: | 0736-7236 |
| DOI: | 10.1521/jscp.2009.28.10.1199 |
| Popis: | We examined group differences on scale scores and principal components across hostility, assertiveness, and depression measures in 738 young adults (ages 18–30; 66% women; 39% White, 27% Black, 25% Asian). On individual scales, men reported greater expressive hostility and cynicism, whereas women showed greater agreeableness and depression. Asians reported the least assertiveness and the greatest depression, whereas Blacks reported the least agreeableness and greatest negativism and verbal hostility. Across all measures, two expressive (antagonistic; assertive) and 2 experiential (cynical-depressive; brooding) hostility components were observed for most groups, with antagonism and assertion less discernable for Whites, and Asians evidencing a distinct depression/guilt component. A 3-component model revealed antagonistic, brooding-cynical, and depressive components, with anger-in and (low) assertiveness both loading with depression in all groups but Whites. The variable associations among assertiveness, de... |
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