Abstract

It was assumed that, when the thought of the stressful life event was suppressed intentionally, the rumination about the stressful life event would be frequently occurred and the experience of negative emotion would be increased. Based upon the above assumption, two hypotheses were derived and examined through a survey research in this study: (1) The effects of rumination(cognitive factor) and the experiences of negative emotion(emotional factor) on subject well-being and health perception would be significant respectively, after controlling the effect of the other factor. (2) The interaction effect of these two factors would be significant. We asked 353 college students to answer to the Korean versions of the Impact of Event Scale(IES: Horowitz, 1979) for rumination and to Korean adaptation of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory(STAXI-K: Chon, Hahn, Lee, & Spielberger, 1997) for the experience and expression of anger. Subject well-being and health perception were measured with the scales developed by Hahn & Pyo(2002). The results of this research supported the hypothesis (1) and (2). Furthermore, the mediation effect of rumination between suppression and subjective well-being was significant. Finally, the limitations of this study and the suggestions for future studies were discussed.