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Hazel Rose Markus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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culture and the promotion of well being in east and west understanding varieties of attunement to the surrounding context
2014Co-Authors: Carol D Ryff, Yuri Miyamoto, Hazel Rose Markus, Gayle D Love, Katherine B Curhan, Shinobu Kitayama, Jiyoung Park, Norito Kawakami, Mayumi KarasawaAbstract:This chapter reviews conceptions of psychological well-being and how they vary across Cultural Contexts, using research primarily from Japan and the U.S. Similarly, Cultural differences in the meaning of mental illness and prevalence of emotional disorders are also examined. Further work shows that cinical interventions and educational practices designed to promote well-being are infused with Cultural norms and values. The take home message is that greater awareness is needed of how Cultural Contexts shape ideal formulations of human well-being as well as the strategies adopted to promote it.
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feeling close and doing well the prevalence and motivational effects of interpersonally engaging emotions in mexican and european american Cultural Contexts
International Journal of Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Krishna Savani, Ayme Alvarez, Batja Mesquita, Hazel Rose MarkusAbstract:Two studies investigate whether interpersonally engaging emotions—those that bring the self closer to others (e.g., affection, shame)—are central to the model of self and relationships prevalent in Mexican Cultural Contexts. Study 1 demonstrated that compared to people in European American Contexts, people in Mexican Contexts were more likely to report experiencing interpersonally engaging emotions and less likely to report experiencing interpersonally disengaging emotions. Study 2 found that interpersonally engaging emotions had a substantial influence on performance motivation in Mexican Contexts—Mexican participants solved more word search puzzles after recalling instances in which they experienced positive interpersonally engaging emotions, and fewer after recalling negative interpersonally disengaging emotions; in contrast, there were no differences by condition for European Americans. These findings significantly extend previous research by documenting the implications of relational concerns (e.g., simpatia, personalismo) for emotion and motivation in Mexican Contexts, and are the first to demonstrate the motivational effects of interpersonally engaging emotions.
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self portraits possible selves in european american chilean japanese and japanese american Cultural Contexts
Self and Identity, 2004Co-Authors: Patrick Unemori, Heather Omoregie, Hazel Rose MarkusAbstract:Possible selves of students from European-American (EA), Chilean (CH), Japanese-American (JA), and Japanese (JN) Cultural Contexts were analyzed, revealing differences in the emphasis given to various content themes. EA possible selves focus on intrapersonal themes (i.e., “fear being dependent”), consistent with Cultural emphases on uniqueness and independent development. In JN, JA and CH Contexts, career and education themes dominate possible selves, consistent with particularly strong Cultural emphasis on professional and academic accomplishments. The Cultural Contexts also differ in their predominant configurations of possible selves—EA and CH possible selves often show balance (expected and feared selves of similar theme but opposing valence, i.e., “expect to graduate from college” and “fear dropping out of college”) while JN and JA selves more frequently match (expected and feared selves of similar thematic content and valence, i.e., “expect to be idle” and “fear being idle”).
Brooke Wilken - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cultural variation in pro positive versus balanced systems of emotions
Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2017Co-Authors: Yuri Miyamoto, Brooke WilkenAbstract:People generally perceive positive emotions more favorably than negative emotions and try to increase positive emotions and decrease negative emotions. However, the extent to which people hold such pro-positive and contra-negative orientations to emotions differs across cultures. We review research that examines Cultural influences on the valuation, regulation, and experiences of positive and negative emotions. Based on this research, we propose that a pro-positive and contra-negative system of emotion is more prevalent in Western, especially American Cultural Contexts, whereas a balanced system of emotion is more dominant in East Asian Cultural Contexts. At the end, we propose directions for future research.
Qi Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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savoring or dampening maternal reactions to children s positive emotions in Cultural Contexts
Culture and Brain, 2019Co-Authors: Qingfang Song, Yang Yang, Stacey N Doan, Qi WangAbstract:This study examined in Cultural Contexts maternal reactions to children’s positive emotions and the relations to children’s socio-emotional outcomes. European American (EA) and Chinese immigrant (CI) mothers reported their reactions to children’s (N = 117, M = 7.14 years) positive emotions. Children were interviewed for emotion knowledge and mothers rated children’s psychological adjustment. CI mothers reported to use emotion dampening reactions more than did EA mothers. Whereas maternal savoring reactions were associated with better adaptive adjustment across cultures, maternal dampening reactions were negatively associated with children’s emotion knowledge at marginal significance for EA but not for CI children. The findings shed critical light on the functional meaning of parental emotion socialization practices for shaping developmental outcomes in specific Cultural Contexts.
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children s narrative representations of peer experiences in Cultural Contexts the relations to psychological adjustment
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Qingfang Song, Qi WangAbstract:This study examined children’s narrative representations of peer experiences in Cultural Contexts and its concurrent and long-term relations to psychological adjustment. Thirty-four European American and 30 Chinese immigrant 9-10 years old children completed a narrative task to tell stories based on two scenario stems. Children’s peer-related self-views, loneliness, and social anxiety were assessed and again a year later. Peer interaction themes in children’s completed stories, particularly conflict resolution, were associated with European American children’s positive self-views and lower loneliness at both time points, as well as lower social anxiety at time 2. In contrast, conflictual themes exhibited significant association only with Chinese immigrant children’s engaging self-views at time 1. The associations of peer interaction themes to children’s positive self-views emerged to be significant for Chinese immigrant children only at time 2. Furthermore, peer interaction themes did not correlate with Chinese immigrant children’s loneliness and social anxiety at either time point. The results suggested the culture-dependent role of narrative representations of peer experiences in children’s psychological adjustment.
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remembering the self in Cultural Contexts a Cultural dynamic theory of autobiographical memory
Memory Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Qi WangAbstract:People from different cultures often tell diverse stories about their past experiences. Research in the past two decades has revealed systematic differences in the content (self-focus vs other-focu...
Yuri Miyamoto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cultural variation in pro positive versus balanced systems of emotions
Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2017Co-Authors: Yuri Miyamoto, Brooke WilkenAbstract:People generally perceive positive emotions more favorably than negative emotions and try to increase positive emotions and decrease negative emotions. However, the extent to which people hold such pro-positive and contra-negative orientations to emotions differs across cultures. We review research that examines Cultural influences on the valuation, regulation, and experiences of positive and negative emotions. Based on this research, we propose that a pro-positive and contra-negative system of emotion is more prevalent in Western, especially American Cultural Contexts, whereas a balanced system of emotion is more dominant in East Asian Cultural Contexts. At the end, we propose directions for future research.
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culture and the promotion of well being in east and west understanding varieties of attunement to the surrounding context
2014Co-Authors: Carol D Ryff, Yuri Miyamoto, Hazel Rose Markus, Gayle D Love, Katherine B Curhan, Shinobu Kitayama, Jiyoung Park, Norito Kawakami, Mayumi KarasawaAbstract:This chapter reviews conceptions of psychological well-being and how they vary across Cultural Contexts, using research primarily from Japan and the U.S. Similarly, Cultural differences in the meaning of mental illness and prevalence of emotional disorders are also examined. Further work shows that cinical interventions and educational practices designed to promote well-being are infused with Cultural norms and values. The take home message is that greater awareness is needed of how Cultural Contexts shape ideal formulations of human well-being as well as the strategies adopted to promote it.
Chiyue Chiu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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to know or not to know is that the question exploring the role and assessment of metacognition in cross Cultural Contexts
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Jennifer Klafehn, Chiyue ChiuAbstract:Findings from research in educational and cognitive psychology have shown that metacognition, defined as the awareness, monitoring, and evaluation of one’s knowledge and cognitive processes, exerts substantial influence on individual performance. The majority of this research, however, has only examined metacognitive skill as it applies to academic settings, and has largely overlooked its applications to other Contexts, such as cross-Cultural performance. To better understand the role of metacognition in cross-Cultural Contexts, as well as the means by which it should be assessed, two studies were conducted that jointly explored the construct validity of a well-established self-reported measure of metacognition (i.e., the Metacognitive subscale of the Cultural Intelligence Scale; CQS), as well as its relative utility in predicting cross-Cultural performance. Results from Study 1 indicated that self-reported metacognition (as measured by the CQS) is distinct from personality, but highly correlated with the...
