Cultural variation in affect valuation.

Tsai, Jeanne L.; Knutson, Brian; Fung, Helene H.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.288

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“…Second, our assessment of parents' emotion did not distinguish between expression of high-arousal (e.g., excitement) and lowarousal (e.g., calm) emotion (Tsai et al, 2006). Thus, a key direction for future research is to examine how acculturative processes shape immigrant parents' valuation of high-or lowarousal emotions and whether these mediate their expression of emotion in the family.…”

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Chinese American immigrant parents’ emotional expression in the family: Relations with parents’ cultural orientations and children’s emotion-related regulation.

Chen¹,

Zhou²,

Main³

et al. 2015

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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The present study examined 2 measures of Chinese American immigrant parents' emotional expression in the family context: self-reported emotional expressivity and observed emotional expression during a parent-child interaction task. Path analyses were conducted to examine the concurrent associations between measures of emotional expression and (a) parents' American and Chinese cultural orientations in language proficiency, media use, and social affiliation domains, and (b) parents' and teachers' ratings of children's emotion-related regulation. Results suggested that cultural orientations were primarily associated with parents' self-reported expressivity (rather than observed emotional expression), such that higher American orientations were generally associated with higher expressivity. Although parents' self-reported expressivity was only related to their own reports of children's regulation, parents' observed emotional expression was related to both parents' and teachers' reports of children's regulation. These results suggest that self-reported expressivity and observed emotional expression reflect different constructs and have differential relations to parents' cultural orientations and children's regulation.

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Section: Limitations and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese American immigrant parents’ emotional expression in the family: Relations with parents’ cultural orientations and children’s emotion-related regulation.

Chen¹,

Zhou²,

Main³

et al. 2015

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…Tsai, Knutson, and Fung (2006) suggest that culture influences ideal affect more than it influences actual affect. For instance, Americans value high-arousal positive affect (e.g., excitement) more than do Hong Kong Chinese individuals, who place greater value on lowarousal positive affect (e.g., calmness).…”

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Personal or interpersonal construal of happiness: A cultural psychological perspective

Uchida

Ogihara

2012

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Cultural psychological research reveals considerable variation in how people construe happiness and experience subjective wellbeing. This paper identified substantial cultural differences in (1) meanings of happiness, (2) predictors of happiness, and (3) how social changes such as globalization are related to happiness. In European-American cultural contexts, happiness is construed as including experience of a highly desirable and positive emotional state defined in terms of a high arousal state such as excitement and a sense of personal achievement. Moreover, individual happiness is best predicted by personal goal attainment and high selfesteem or self-efficacy. In contrast, in East Asian cultural contexts (i.e., those found in Japan), happiness is construed as including experience of both positive and negative emotional state. Happiness is defined in terms of experiencing a low arousal state such as calmness and interpersonal connectedness and harmony. Furthermore, individual happiness is best predicted by relationship harmony and emotional support from others. While people maintain traditional cultural norms, some societies and organizations are under pressure from globalization and this might affect happiness. We examined how cultural change affects wellbeing, especially focusing on current Japanese contexts where individuals have experienced an increasing shift toward individualism and have experienced a large national disaster. Cultural psychological perspectives regarding happiness provide important contributions to psychological science and society at large.

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“…Individuals concerned with self-face are concerned with how their expression affects their representation, and a display of emotion outside the norm may lead to a loss of face and hurt their reputation. Given that negative emotions restraint is valued in many Asian cultures (e.g., Louie, Oh, & Lau, 2013;Tsai, Knutson, & Fung, 2006), we would expect to see more positive emotional www.ccsenet.org/ijps…”

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Diversity from within: The Impact of Cultural Variables on Emotion Expressivity in Singapore

Hurley¹,

Teo²,

Kwok³

et al. 2016

IJPS

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Culture is intrinsically linked with emotion expression, as culture provides rules regarding how to manage emotions when they occur. Thus far, existing literature has extensively compared norms for emotional expression and suppression, revealing significant differences among culturally distinct but also geographically distant groups (e.g., "collectivistic" Chinese versus "individualistic" U.S. Americans). The present study examines the impact of cultural diversity within Singapore, a heterogeneous Asian nation of 5.4 million residents. Using an expression suppression paradigm, eighty-three participants viewed emotion eliciting video clips and their expressions were analyzed according to the Emotion Facial Action Coding System (EmFACS, Ekman, Irwin, & Rosenberg, 1994) for signs of happiness and disgust. Participants tasked to manage their expression were successful; however cultural indicators such as ethnicity, collectivism, and concern for face affected expressivity under both suppression and natural expression conditions. These results emphasize the importance of exploring culture within national boundaries, as multiple cultural factors (e.g., ethnic groupings, values, and face) influenced expression.

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Cultural variation in affect valuation.

Cited by 1,050 publications

References 103 publications

Chinese American immigrant parents’ emotional expression in the family: Relations with parents’ cultural orientations and children’s emotion-related regulation.

Chinese American immigrant parents’ emotional expression in the family: Relations with parents’ cultural orientations and children’s emotion-related regulation.

Personal or interpersonal construal of happiness: A cultural psychological perspective

Diversity from within: The Impact of Cultural Variables on Emotion Expressivity in Singapore

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