Being Authentic and Feeling Understood: A Structural Equation Model of the Relationship between Expressive Suppression and Social Outcomes
Previous research has shown that hiding one’s emotions, an emotion-regulation strategy known as expressive suppression (Gross, 1998a), leads to adverse social outcomes. The underlying mechanisms that explain this relationship are not yet fully understood. The present study developed and tested a structural equation model with two mediators (authenticity and feeling understood) and two moderators (