Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2025, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (8): 449-456,468.

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A Cross-Lagged Study on Internalizing and Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Junior High School Students: The Mediation of Expression Suppression

  

  1. Department of Psychology, Normal School of Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
  • Accepted:2025-06-13 Online:2025-07-30 Published:2025-07-30

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There has been ongoing debate about the directional predictive relationship and underlying mechanisms between internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in junior high school students. This study tested this question with junior high school students as participants and adopted a cross-lagged design. Using the Youth Self-Report Scale and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, a follow-up survey was conducted over a five-month interval with 491 students from the first and second years of junior high school. The
results showed that internalizing and externalizing problems have a bidirectional predictive relationship, and expressive suppression, an emotion regulation strategy, plays a mediating role between the two.

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