Are Cultural Differences in Emotion Regulation Mediated by Personality Traits?

Matsumoto, David

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“…Individuals with higher scores on Extraversion are more likely to use cognitive reappraisal and less likely to use expressive suppression, while individuals with higher scores on Neuroticism are more prone to lack ER abilities (Matsumoto, 2006).…”

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“…According to the most recent empirical findings, however, such cultural differences in ER are mostly accounted for by individual differences in personality traits. What in the past appeared to be "cultural" may in fact have been group differences on personality traits among different cultures (Matsumoto, 2006). Neuroticism and Extraversion, in this sense, are the two most relevant personality traits.…”

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Cultural Adaptation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Reliability and Validity of an Italian Version

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of an Italian version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004).Method: Three studies were completed. First, factorial structure, internal consistency, and concurrent validity of our Italian version of the DERS were examined with a sample of 323 students (77% female; mean age 25.6). Second, test-retest analyses were completed using a different sample of 61 students (80% female; mean age 24.7). Third, the scores produced by a small clinical sample (N = 38; mean age = 24.2) affected by anorexia, binge eating disorder, or bulimia were compared to those of an age-matched, nonclinical female sample (N = 38; mean age = 24.7). Results: The factorial structure replicated quite well the six-factor structure proposed by Gratz and Roemer. The internal consistency and test-retest reliability were adequate and comparable to previous findings. The validity was good, as indicated by both the concurrent validity analysis and the clinical-nonclinical sample comparison. Conclusions:These studies provide further support for the multidimensional model of emotion regulation postulated by Gratz and Roemer and strengthen the rationale for cross-cultural utilization of the DERS. (Gross, 2008). This is partly due to the several processes that underlie diverse emotion regulation acts as well as the lack of consistent, agreed-upon conceptualizations of ER.Broadly defined, the construct of ER refers to the conscious or unconscious attempt of an individual to influence the expression and type of emotion he or she feels (Mauss, Bunge & Gross, 2007). ER also encompasses the extrinsic or intrinsic processes that are responsible for the monitoring, evaluation, and modification of emotional responses, including the ability to modulate and regulate behaviors when experiencing emotional distress (Gratz & Roemer, 2004; Thompson, 1994).According to Gross and Thompson (2007), there are five points in time in which emotions could be regulated: situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation. Each of the five ER strategies has received a great deal of interest by several researchers (Gross, 2008). Moreover, two ER strategies have received major attention: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression.The first consists of attempts to think about the situation as to alter its meaning and emotional (Fox et al., 2007; Gratz, 2007;Gratz, Lacroce, & Gunderson, 2006; Gratz & Roemer, 2004;Gratz, Rosenthal, Tull, Lejuez, & Gunderson, 2006;Gratz, Tull, Baruch, Bornovalova, & Lejuez, 2008;Salters-Pedneault, Roemer, Tull, Rucker, & Mennin, 2006; Tull & Roemer, 2007). Nonetheless, more research on this topic is needed, and the extent to which Gratz and Roemer's results can be generalized to samples from diverse cultural backgrounds remains an empirical question. Adaptability of the DERS to an Italian Sample.

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Cultural Adaptation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Reliability and Validity of an Italian Version

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“…In short, Gross (2007) presented unique relationship between personality factors and emotion regulation strategies. in studies of personality related to emotional experiences or emotion expression, neuroticism usually is linked with negative emotional experience (Schimmack et al in Matsumoto, 2006). The other trait, such as extraversion has correlation also with both positive and negative emotions.…”

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“…The other trait, such as extraversion has correlation also with both positive and negative emotions. Aspects of extraversion such as warmness, assertiveness, vigor, positive emotions have relationship with emotion regulation (McCrae & Costa, in Livingstone & Srivastava, 2014;Matsumoto, 2006).…”

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“…A strategy chosen for regulating emotion can be more healthier than others (John & Gross, 2004), or more effective than others (Lopes, Salovey, Coté, & Beers, 2005). Gross and John (2003) showed, that reappraisal is positively related to well-being, in contrast another technique,called emotional suppression is negatively correlated with well-being (Matsumoto, 2006) Suggests that there might be individual differences in emotion regulation in a different culture , it is possible for their individual differences in emotion regulation due to differences in culture: this could be manifested further in personality traits. Bolger and Zuckerman (1995) demonstrated that those with high neuroticism tended to use ineffective emotional regulation strategy than those who scored less in a questionnaire aimed to measure neuroticism susceptibility in individuals (Dynes, 2010).…”

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Personality and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Purnamaningsih

2017

Int. j. psychol. res.

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The emotions has many important functions in our life such as in relation of interpersonal communication, and health. In interpersonal communicative function aimed to signal to other information about internal state. Emotions manifests in specific cognitive, behavioural, and physiological reactions, thus closely related to health. There is wide variety of ways for individuals to regulate their emotion. In this regard, there are two kinds of emotion regulation strategy; first Antecedent-focused emotion regulation consisting of situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change and second, Response-focused emotion regulation consisting of suppression. The purpose of this research is to investigate personality factors relate with emotion regulation strategies. 339 students from Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada were participating in this study and given The Big Five Personality Factors (Ramdhani, 2012, adaptation), and the modified version of the Emotion Regulation Scale was used, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (John & Gross, 2004) which measure personality and emotion regulation respectively. Using multiple regression analysis, the study indicated that personality predicts emotion regulation strategies. ResumenLas emociones tienen muchas funciones importantes en nuestra vida, como en relación de comunicación interpersonal y salud. En la función comunicativa interpersonal se pretende señalar a otros, información sobre estados internos. Las emociones se manifiestan en reacciones cognitivas, conductuales y fisiológicas específicas, por tanto estrechamente relacionadas con la salud. Hay una gran variedad de formas para que los individuos regulen su emoción; en este sentido, hay dos tipos de estrategia de regulación emocional. La primera, regulación de la emoción centrada en los antecedentes: consistente en la selección de la situación, la modificación de la situación, el despliegue atencional y el cambio cognitivo. La segunda, la regulación de la emoción centrada en la respuesta consistenteúnicamente en la supresión. El propósito de esta investigación es investigar los factores de personalidad que se relacionan con las estrategias de regulación emocional. 339 estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Gadjah Mada participaron en este estudio y se les administró la escala de los cinco gran factores de personalidad (adaptación de Ramdhani, 2012) y la versión modificada de la escala de regulación emocional, el cuestionario de regulación emocional (John & Gross, 2004) que miden la regulación de la personalidad y la emoción respectivamente. El estudio indicó que la personalidad predice las estrategias de regulación de la emoción usando el análisis de regresión múltiple.

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Cultural Attribution Fallacy

Yoo

2013

The Encyclopedia of Cross‐Cultural Psychology

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Cultural attribution fallacy occurs when researchers make cultural interpretations about differences found between countries without empirical justification. The most widely used cultural interpretation involves the cultural dimension Individualism‐Collectivism (IC). For example, if a researcher assumes, without linking differences to IC, that two countries differ on a psychological process because one country is an individualistic culture and the other is a collectivistic culture, the researcher is making a cultural attribution fallacy. This tendency is problematic because although the observed differences may well have occurred because of differences in IC, it may also be the case that the differences occurred because of other factors.

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Are Cultural Differences in Emotion Regulation Mediated by Personality Traits?

Cited by 166 publications

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Cultural Adaptation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Reliability and Validity of an Italian Version

Cultural Adaptation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Reliability and Validity of an Italian Version

Personality and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Cultural Attribution Fallacy

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