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Chapter IV: Results
correlated with Social Perspective Coordination and coping with sadness regulation. Social
Perspective Coordination was significantly and negatively correlated with Poor Emotion
Awareness and Emotion Expressive Reluctance. Poor Emotion Awareness was strongly
positively correlated with Expressive Reluctance (see Preliminary Analysis) and moderately with
inhibition of anger regulation. A significant negative correlation was found between Poor
Emotion Awareness and strategies for coping with sadness. Expressive Reluctance of Emotion
was strongly positively correlated with Anger Regulation Inhibition and less so correlated with
Sadness Regulation Coping. Anger Regulation Inhibition was positively correlated with coping
with sadness regulation. Taken together, these findings generally reflect that with severity of
depressive symptomatology, adolescents have increasing difficulty in identifying internal
emotional experiences, or expression of emotions to others, or suppressing anger expression.
Greater social-cognitive maturity or coping with sadness regulation are negatively correlated
with increasing levels of depressive symptomatology.
Table 28
Intercorrelations among Social Perspective Coordination, Emotion Measures, and Depressive
Symptomatology
Variable M SD 1 2 3 4 5
1 Depressive Symptomatology
2 Social Perspective Coordination
3 Poor Emotion Awareness
4 Expressive Reluctance
5 Anger Regulation Inhibition
6 Sadness Regulation Coping
Note. * p < .05 (2-tailed). ** p < .01 (2-tailed).
56.27
2.17
2.00
2.44
1.74
2.16
13.30
.14
.78
.84
.51
.40
Regression Analysis
-.14*
.63**
.50**
.20**
-.20**
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-.13 *
-.18**
.04
.06
.67**
.27**
-.15**
_
.45**
.12* .23**
In order to further assess the links among these variables, linear hierarchical regression
analysis was conducted to explore the influence of Social Perspective Coordination, Emotion
Awareness, Expression of Emotion, and emotion regulation, to dimensions of adolescents'
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