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A cross-cultural study of the perception, expression, regulation, and coping of emotion among Chinese and Caucasian people.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cross-cultural study of the perception, expression, regulation, and coping of emotion among Chinese and Caucasian people./
Author:	Tong, Anthony Kwok Kwun.
Description:	261 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: A, page: 3694.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-08A.
Subject:	Ethnic studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NN11623
ISBN:	9780612116238

A cross-cultural study of the perception, expression, regulation, and coping of emotion among Chinese and Caucasian people.
Tong, Anthony Kwok Kwun.

A cross-cultural study of the perception, expression, regulation, and coping of emotion among Chinese and Caucasian people. - 261 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: A, page: 3694.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 1996.

The present study examined the relationship between culture and emotion, comparing Chinese people originated from Hong Kong and Canadian born Caucasians in terms of their understanding, expression, regulation and coping of emotion. This research included both a questionnaire survey and an interview study, and both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. One hundred and thirty-six Chinese and ninety-one Caucasians participated in the questionnaire survey, whereas six Chinese and six Caucasians participated in the interview study. All the subjects were between the age of 18 and 45 with at least a completed high school education. The study findings showed that Caucasians tend to adopt a psychological perspective in understanding emotion, whereas Chinese tend to treat emotion from a moral and social perspective. Chinese are particularly concerned with the social implications of negative emotions on interpersonal relationships and social harmony. Chinese are also emotionally more inhibited and less inclined to share their feelings with others. During interpersonal conflicts, Chinese tend to be more avoidant and Caucasians tend to be more confrontative. With respect to emotional control and modulation, the questionnaire findings indicated that Chinese had less anger control than Caucasians, but there was no difference in benign control and aggression control. Caucasians were also found to have more mental rehearsal than Chinese. Significant gender differences were also identified. In addition, the interview findings showed that in the face of emotional distress, Chinese relatively use passive reappraisal and distancing as coping strategies more, whereas Caucasians relatively use positive reappraisal and validation of their feelings more. Moreover, path analyses of the questionnaire findings indicated significant correlations between cultural variables, such as self-reliance, interdependence and individualism, and emotional variables, such as emotional inhibition and anger-out, and all these variables were also related to distress symptoms. There was also evidence supporting the hypothesis that emotional inhibition has a less negative impact on the well-being of Chinese relative to Caucasians due to different emotion socializations. Finally implications of the study were discussed in light of the cross-cultural study of emotion, the understanding of Chinese emotion, and the counselling and psychoeducation with Chinese people.

ISBN: 9780612116238Subjects--Topical Terms:

1556779
Ethnic studies.

A cross-cultural study of the perception, expression, regulation, and coping of emotion among Chinese and Caucasian people.
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