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Effect of language and culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of self and depressive emotions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effect of language and culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of self and depressive emotions./
Author:	Ting, Rachel Sing-Kiat.
Description:	118 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: B, page: 1172.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02B.
Subject:	Psychology, Clinical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3205806
ISBN:	0542550245

Effect of language and culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of self and depressive emotions.
Ting, Rachel Sing-Kiat.

Effect of language and culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of self and depressive emotions. - 118 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: B, page: 1172.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology, 2006.

As much of the research demonstrates, language is a powerful means to access certain cultural constructs. In order to better understand self-description and emotional expression in Chinese populations and differentiate them from others, this study adopted a language priming approach with bilingual and bicultural Chinese. This study proposed that when writing in the Chinese language, bilingual Chinese tend to: (a) use more interdependent values in self-descriptions; (b) more somatic and interpersonal language in describing depression; and (c) less psychological vocabulary in describing depression. To test these hypotheses, this study randomly assigned bilingual Chinese into two language conditions (Chinese and English). Participants were asked to respond in one of the languages by completing a questionnaire protocol, including open-ended questions, images and vignettes, that elicited self-description and depressive emotions. Their responses were compared with a Caucasian American group fluent solely in English. Bilingual Chinese who were assigned to the English language condition were expected to use language less similar to those who were assigned to the Chinese language condition, but more similar to the language of the Caucasian American group. After translating all Chinese written responses, data were analyzed quantitatively with a computational language program (Latent Semantic Analysis). The results illustrated that language has a significant priming effect on verbal descriptions of self, and depressive emotions in bilingual Chinese individuals. The differences between groups on these dependent variables followed a predicted spectrum. Furthermore, the methodological limitations of the findings were discussed. The present study demonstrated the importance of language in understanding cultural representations and providing multicultural therapy.

ISBN: 0542550245Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

Effect of language and culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of self and depressive emotions.
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