APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

The Role of Comfort Expressing Emotions and Suicidal Ideation Among Asian American Subgroups Versus European American Young Adults

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session

  • Khadijah Ahmad
    CUNY Graduate Center
  • Khadijah Ahmad
    Hunter College

Abstract

This study examined ethnic differences in the relation between comfort expressing emotions and hopelessness, depression, suicidal ideation, among White, East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian emerging adults. Comfort expressing emotions predicted suicidal ideation, among White and East Asians, but not among South Asians and Southeast Asians.

Emotion

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