Convergence in feeling, divergence in physiology: How culture influences the consequences of disgust suppression and amplification among European Americans and Asian Americans.

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      Publisher: Blackwell Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0142657 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1540-5958 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00485772 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychophysiology Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell
      Original Publication: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins.
    • Subject Terms:
      Asian People/*ethnology ; Emotions/*physiology ; Galvanic Skin Response/*physiology ; Self-Control/*psychology ; White People/*ethnology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Asian ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; United States/ethnology ; Young Adult
    • Abstract:
      Much empirical work documents the downsides of suppressing emotions. Emerging research points to the need for a more sophisticated and culturally informed approach to understanding the consequences of emotion regulation. To that end, we employed behavioral, self-report, and psychophysiological measures to examine the consequences of two types of emotion regulation (suppression and amplification) in a sample of 28 Asian Americans and 31 European Americans. Participants were shown a neutral film and then a series of disgust-eliciting films during which they were asked to regulate their response by suppressing or amplifying their emotional behavior (counterbalanced). Despite self-reporting equal levels of disgust, European Americans showed greater skin conductance reactivity than Asian Americans in both regulation conditions, but not in response to a neutral film. These findings extend work on divergence in the consequences of emotion regulation across different cultural groups, which could help identify optimal emotion regulation strategies for health and well-being.
      (© 2015 Society for Psychophysiological Research.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Amplification; Asian Americans; Cultural differences; Emotion regulation; Psychophysiology; Suppression
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20151219 Date Completed: 20170117 Latest Revision: 20221207
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/psyp.12579
    • Accession Number:
      26681616