Optimism and pessimism as mediators of the relations between self-discrepancies and distress among Asian and European Americans
Optimism and pessimism as mediators of the relations between self-discrepancies and distress among Asian and European Americans
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-0167.52.1.25
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Leong, FTL
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作者：
Hardin, EE;Leong, FTL
作者研究了不期望的自我差异在预测亚洲和欧洲美国人的情绪困扰中的作用，不期望的自我差异是否是亚洲人比欧洲美国人更强的情绪困扰预测因子，以及乐观和悲观是否调解理想，应该和不期望的自我差异和情绪困扰之间的关系。自我认定的亚洲/亚裔美国人（n = 140）和欧洲美国人（n = 189）的大学生完成了自我差异，乐观/悲观，社交焦虑和抑郁症状的措施。结果表明，对于亚裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人，更大的相似性不受欢迎的自我是同样预测抑郁症的症状，而距离不受欢迎的自我是更预测社交焦虑的亚裔美国人比欧洲裔美国人。此外，悲观主义完全介导的关系不受欢迎的自我差异和抑郁症状的亚裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人，虽然悲观主义是一个更强的预测抑郁症的欧洲裔美国人比亚洲人/亚裔美国人。
The authors examined the role of undesired self-discrepancies in predicting emotional distress among Asian and European Americans, whether undesired self-discrepancies are stronger predictors of distress for Asian than for European Americans, and whether optimism and pessimism mediate the relations between ideal, ought, and undesired self-discrepancies and emotional distress. Self-identified Asian/Asian American (n = 140),and European American (n = 189) college students completed measures of self-discrepancies, optimism/pessimism, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Results show that for both Asian Americans and European Americans, greater similarity to the undesired self is equally predictive of symptoms of depression, whereas distance from the undesired self is more predictive of social anxiety for Asian Americans than for European Americans. Furthermore, pessimism fully mediates the relations between undesired self-discrepancies and depressive symptoms for both Asian Americans and European Americans, although pessimism was a stronger predictor of depression for European Americans than for Asians/Asian Americans.