Cultural shaping of emotion differentiation: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions.

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI:10.1037/emo0001553
Jiyoung Park, Yue Li, Yoonseok Choi, Jinkyung Na, Yiyi Zhu, Adrianna Martin
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Abstract

There is a growing consensus that emotion differentiation-the ability to discern specific emotions-is healthy. To assess this ability, studies so far have exclusively relied on the dimension of emotion pleasantness by lumping together various types of emotions that fall within the same valence category. However, this approach neglects the possibility that individuals may represent certain types of emotions in a more differentiated fashion, if these emotions are functionally adaptive and therefore are more frequently experienced in their cultural environments. Here, we propose social orientation as another dimension to analyze emotion differentiation and test a hypothesis that the ability to differentiate socially engaging (vs. disengaging) emotions is reinforced more and is associated with better health in interdependent (vs. independent) cultural contexts. In a longitudinal daily diary study conducted in the United States and Korea between 2019 and 2020, we assessed the extent to which participants differentiated engaging or disengaging emotions based on 2 weeks of daily affective reports. For both positive and negative emotions, Koreans differentiated engaging emotions more than European Americans did. Conversely, European Americans differentiated disengaging emotions more than Koreans did. Moreover, for both cultural groups, the extent to which they differentiated emotions that are valued more in their respective culture-engaging for Koreans and disengaging for European Americans-predicted better health 2 months later, indirectly via reducing their tendency to ruminate over time. These results suggest that culture shapes how we represent emotions, and doing so in a culturally preferred way has a potential to bring health benefits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

情绪分化的文化塑造:社交参与和社交脱离情绪。
越来越多的人认为,情绪区分——辨别特定情绪的能力——是健康的。为了评估这种能力,迄今为止的研究完全依赖于情绪愉悦的维度,将属于同一效价类别的各种类型的情绪集中在一起。然而,这种方法忽略了一种可能性,即如果这些情绪在功能上具有适应性,因此在他们的文化环境中更频繁地经历,那么个体可能会以更差异化的方式表现某些类型的情绪。在这里,我们提出社会取向作为分析情绪分化的另一个维度,并检验一个假设,即在相互依赖(相对于独立)的文化背景下,区分社会参与(与脱离)情绪的能力得到了更多的加强,并且与更好的健康状况有关。在2019年至2020年期间在美国和韩国进行的一项纵向每日日记研究中,我们根据两周的每日情感报告评估了参与者区分投入或脱离情绪的程度。在积极情绪和消极情绪方面,韩国人比欧美人更能区分参与情绪。相反,欧裔美国人比韩国人更能区分脱离情绪。此外,对于这两个文化群体来说,他们区分各自文化中更重视的情绪的程度——韩国人的参与和欧洲美国人的不参与——预示着两个月后的健康状况会更好,间接地通过减少他们随着时间的推移而沉思的倾向。这些结果表明,文化塑造了我们表达情绪的方式,以一种文化偏好的方式表达情绪可能会带来健康益处。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
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Emotion
Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
8.40
自引率
7.10%
发文量
325
审稿时长
8 weeks
期刊介绍: Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.
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