Data and Questionnaire for Singaporean Malays and Chinese: Differences in Levels of Emotion Suppression

Background: Existing research comparing expressive suppression levels across cultural groups have largely been conducted in countries where there is a very strong dominant majority culture. There is also a lack of empirical research on the differences in levels of expressive suppression between different Asian cultures. Investigating levels of expressive suppression across cultural groups is important, as different groups have been found to display different expressive suppression levels, which has different effects on wellbeing for different cultural groups. The data collected allows for comparison of expressive suppression levels between Chinese and Malay individuals (2 Asian cultures) in Singapore (a multicultural country where maintenance of all cultural groups' heritage are equally promoted).
This data record contains:

Raw Qualtrics data: Responses downloaded from Qualtrics, with identifying / irrelevant information removed
Processed data: Responses with incomplete responses removed, negatively keyed questions reverse coded
Questionnaire: Questions included in online survey and debriefing message included at the end of the survey 

Data collection:

SONA & personal contacts, snowball method
Participants completed online Qualtrics questionnaire
Participant inclusion criteria: Singaporean citizen / PR, identify as either Chinese or Malay, aged 17 or 18 and above for university and non-university students respectively

Data analysis:

Data cleaning: incomplete responses removed, negatively keyed questions reverse coded
Data analysis software: SPSS (ANOVA, reliability analysis, descriptive statistics)