scholarly journals Exploring Cultural Differences in Expressive Suppression and Emotion Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sun ◽  
Anna S. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self

Previous research has shown that the habit of suppressing emotional expressions is associated with long-term, general reductions in social cognitive abilities and interpersonal adjustment. This may be because theoretically, habitual suppression requires the fixation of attention to the self instead of to others. The present research explored the association between the habitual tendency to suppress one’s own emotions and accuracy in recognizing the emotions of others. Emotion recognition accuracy was tested across two tasks, a limited-channel task that presents limited emotional information and a multimodal full-channel task. We further explored cultural differences in this association given that expressive suppression may be normative for individuals of Asian descent due to cultural motivations toward social harmony and interdependence. Our findings revealed few cultural group differences. U.S.-born Asian Americans outperformed foreign-born Asian Americans and European Americans in limited-channel emotion recognition. However, the three groups did not differ in terms of interdependent self-construal, habitual emotion suppression, and full-channel emotion recognition ability. Interdependent self-construal was related to greater habitual suppression and emotion recognition accuracy in the full-channel task. Habitual emotion suppression was negatively related to limited-channel but not full-channel emotion recognition. There was no evidence of cultural differences in the link between habitual suppression and emotion recognition.

scholarly journals Testing Interdependent Self-Construal as a Moderator between Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Health among Emerging Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 444
Author(s):  
Ming Chen ◽  
Rebecca Y. M. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self

This study examines the moderating role of interdependent self-construal between mindfulness, emotion regulation, and psychological health, with emotion regulation as a mediator. A total of 187 Chinese emerging adults completed self-reported measures, including mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, and interdependent self-construal. Our findings indicate moderation effects of interdependent self-construal between (i) mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal, (ii) cognitive reappraisal and life satisfaction, (iii) expressive suppression and life satisfaction, and (iv) expressive suppression and depressive symptoms. Based on bootstrapping and path analyses, cognitive reappraisal mediated the relation between mindfulness and psychological health, including depressive symptoms and life satisfaction, regardless of the level of interdependent self-construal. In addition, mindfulness was not related to expressive suppression, regardless of the level of interdependent self-construal. Based on these findings, researchers and practitioners should pay attention to the differential associations between mindfulness, emotion regulation strategies, and psychological outcomes as a function of interdependent self-construal during emerging adulthood.

scholarly journals Age and Musical Expertise Influence Emotion Recognition in Music

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
São Luís Castro ◽  
César F. Lima
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Music Training ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Musical Expertise ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

We investigated how age and musical expertise influence emotion recognition in music. Musically trained and untrained participants from two age cohorts, young and middle-aged adults (N = 80), were presented with music excerpts expressing happiness, peacefulness, sadness, and fear/threat. Participants rated how much each excerpt expressed the four emotions on 10-point scales. The intended emotions were consistently perceived, but responses varied across groups. Advancing age was associated with selective decrements in the recognition of sadness and fear/threat, a finding consistent with previous research (Lima & Castro, 2011a); the recognition of happiness and peacefulness remained stable. Years of music training were associated with enhanced recognition accuracy. These effects were independent of domain-general cognitive abilities and personality traits, but they were echoed in differences in how efficiently music structural cues (e.g., tempo, mode) were relied upon. Thus, age and musical expertise are experiential factors explaining individual variability in emotion recognition in music.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression and Self-Construal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shinnosuke Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
High Degree

Previous studies have identified cultural differences in the patterns of emotion recognition, with Eastern cultures emphasizing emotional expression through the eyes and Western cultures emphasizing the facial expression around the mouth. The influence of self-construal has been considered a factor of these cultural differences, but no direct examination has been conducted to clarify how cultural factors are related to self-construal. To examine this relationship and exclude cultural influences other than relational self-construal, this study involved three experiments regarding self-construal and emotion recognition in Japanese subjects. The results showed that the participants perceive sadness more strongly through the eye region when they have a high degree of interdependence, and they perceive happiness more strongly through the mouth region when they have a high degree of independence. The results partially confirm the results of previous research and highlight that self-construal plays a role in interpreting facial cues; these findings suggest that more detailed studies and research focusing on other cultures should be conducted to clarify (1) cultural influence on self-construal and (2) cultural influence on emotion recognition.

Self-Construal Differences in Chile and South Korea: A Brief Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 2410-2417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Benavides ◽  
Taekyun Hur
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Latin American ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Latin American Countries

Latin American and East Asian cultures are generally considered to be collectivistic cultures. However, there are very few cross-cultural studies contrasting these two cultures against each other, as most studies in this field compare them to Western culture. Self-construal is one of the most used constructs to explain cultural differences, elucidating whether individuals of a cultural group see themselves as independent of their environment and others, focusing on personal motivations, or interdependent of others and their context, recognizing their role within it. This study intends to compare the self-construal of Chileans and South Koreans and observe the variability in the presence of these dimensions in these two cultures. A total of 200 participants from Chile and South Korea responded to the Self-Construal Scale. Chileans presented significantly higher scores on independent and interdependent self-construal simultaneously when compared to South Koreans. Also, Chileans presented higher scores on independent self-construal than on interdependent self-construal, while Koreans did not show a preference for either dimension. These results are consistent with previous studies on Chileans, implying that not all Latin American countries would adhere to collectivism.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression and Self-Construal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shinnosuke Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
High Degree

Previous studies have identified cultural differences in the patterns of emotion recognition, with Eastern cultures emphasizing emotional expression through the eyes and Western cultures emphasizing the facial expression around the mouth. The influence of self-construal has been considered a factor of these cultural differences, but no direct examination has been conducted to clarify how cultural factors are related to self-construal. To examine this relationship and exclude cultural influences other than relational self-construal, this study involved three experiments regarding self-construal and emotion recognition in Japanese subjects. The results showed that the participants perceive sadness more strongly through the eye region when they have a high degree of interdependence, and they perceive happiness more strongly through the mouth region when they have a high degree of independence. The results partially confirm the results of previous research and highlight that self-construal plays a role in interpreting facial cues; these findings suggest that more detailed studies and research focusing on other cultures should be conducted to clarify (1) cultural influence on self-construal and (2) cultural influence on emotion recognition.

scholarly journals Self-construal priming reconsidered: Comparing effects of two commonly used primes in the UK and China

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengyu Yang ◽  
Vivian L Vignoles
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Construal Priming ◽  
The Uk

Self-construal priming was devised to mimic the effects of chronic cross-cultural differences. Primes designed to activate independent/interdependent self-construals have been found to affect numerous culturally relevant outcomes. However, researchers have rarely checked precisely what these primes activated, nor tested their cross-cultural equivalence. We compared two common priming tasks, Similarities vs. Differences with Family and Friends (SDFF) and Sumerian Warrior Story (SWS), across seven dimensions of independence/interdependence among 118 British and 178 Chinese participants. The two tasks activated different combinations of self-construal dimensions. SWS showed a similar pattern of effects across cultures, whereas SDFF more strongly affected Chinese participants. Neither manipulation closely mimicked the pattern of pre-existing cross-cultural differences between samples. We propose researchers should develop more precisely targeted self-construal primes.

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