Article in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · April 014 doi: 10. 1177/0022022113520074 citations 30 reads 327 authors
Download 463.33 Kb. View original pdf
|
| Participants American sample. The American participants were recruited from a departmental research participant pool at a state university in the Midwestern United States. Four hundred sixty-four college students (345 female, 119 male) participated in the study. Their ages varied between 18 and 57 years (M = 19.73 years, SD = 3.35 years. By applying the z score transformation, 10 participants ranging from 31 (Z = 3.36) to 57 years old (Z = 11.12) were excluded from the following analyses due to their ages being outliers within this sample. The rest of the sample ranged from 18 to 30 years (M = 19.36 years, SD = 1.90 years. Of 454 participants (337 at OAKLAND UNIV on April 9, 2014 jcc.sagepub.com Downloaded from 606 Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 45(4) female, 117 male, 94.7% indicated that they experienced at least one highly stressful life event within the past 5 years and identified one most traumatic or stressful event as a focal event (see Table 1 for additional demographic information. Those who did not experience any stressful life event (n = 24, 5.3%) were excluded. The resulting final sample size consisted of 430 participants. Japanese sample. The Japanese participants were recruited from introductory psychology courses at a suburban university in the Southern part of Japan. Two hundred eighty-two college students (169 female, 113 male, with a mean age of 19.91 years (SD = 0.99 years, ranging from 18 to 27 years, participated in the study. Seventy-eight percent indicated that they experienced at least one highly stressful life event within the past 5 years and chose the single most traumatic or stressful event as a focal event. Those who did not experience any stressful life event (n = 62, 22.0%) were excluded. The resulting final sample size consisted of 220 participants (see Table 1 for additional demographic information). Download 463.33 Kb. Share with your friends:
|