A cross-cultural study of stress responses and social support between Chinese and Japanese junior high school students.

This comparative research’s objective is to demonstrate the relation between stress responses and social support in Japanese and Chinese junior high school students. The subjects were 602 Japanese students and 611 Chinese students. As a result, by comparison of the stress reaction, Japan was intentionally high and it was shown by comparison of social support that Chinese one is intentionally high. Lower than the score became a junior high school students of Japanese junior high school students in China in comparison to stress response is considered to be one that has received more support from the surroundings. In junior high school students in China, “emotional support” and “behavioral support and” is affects the stress response. Junior high school students in Japan, the trend “and behavioral support” is affecting the stress response has been shown