APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Paying the Price for Anger: Do Women Bear Greater Costs?

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Personality/Emotion

  • Natalia Van Doren
    The Pennsylvania State University
  • Jose Soto
    The Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that outward anger expression would be linked to greater depression for women in the MIDUS dataset. As expected, a significant interaction effect was found between gender and anger expression, such that expressing anger outwardly was related to greater depression for women, but not men.

Emotion

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