The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Interpersonal Stress, Coping Strategies and Anger Expression. This study also examined the moderating effect of coping strategies in this relationship.
The subjects for this study we...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Interpersonal Stress, Coping Strategies and Anger Expression. This study also examined the moderating effect of coping strategies in this relationship.
The subjects for this study were 475(247 males, 228 females) undergraduates from 4 universities in Seoul, Korea. They completed Interpersonal Stress scale, Coping Strategies Indicator(K-CSI) and Korean State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory(STAXI-K). The data were analyzed with T-test, Pearson's correlation, Fisher's z-test, Step-wise regression, Hierarchical regression by SPSS 12.0.
The results of this study are as follows:
First, There were significant gender differences on Interpersonal Stress, Coping Strategies and Anger Expression. To be specific, friend stress, professor stress and anger-out expression were significantly higher in males' group. On the other hand, romantic partner stress, social support seeking coping, problem-solving coping were higher in females' group.
Second, The intercorrelations among subscales of interpersonal stress, coping strategies and anger expression were generally high. Avoidance coping was positively related to anger-in and anger-out expression for males' group. Also, the correlation between anger-out and anger-in expression were positively significant. On the other hand, anger-out and anger-control expression were negatively related in females' group. There were no significant correlations among variables of interpersonal stress and anger expression in females' group.
Third, To examine the power of prediction of variables to anger expression, date were analyzed by step-wise regression. In college men, friend stress, family stress and avoidance coping significantly contributed to the prediction of the anger-out expression. Also, romantic partner stress and problem-solving coping predicted anger-control expression. On the other hand, in college women, family stress and social support seeking coping significantly predicted anger-out expression and family stress, problem-solving coping, avoidance coping and social support seeking coping significantly contributed to the prediction of the anger-control expression. In both groups, friend stress and avoidance coping significantly contributed to the prediction of the anger-in expression.
Forth, To examine the moderating effect of coping strategies, data were analyzed by hierarchical regression. The result was that avoidance coping moderated the relationships between family stress and anger-out, and family stress and anger-control expression in females' group.