Lau Anna S, Fung Joey, Wang Shu-Wen, Kang Sun-Mee
Department of Psychology, University of California.
Department of Psychology, California State University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2009 Jan;15(1):77-85. doi: 10.1037/a0012819.
Previous research has documented elevated levels of social anxiety in Asian American college students when compared with their European American peers. The authors hypothesized that higher symptoms among Asians could be explained by cultural differences in attunement to the emotional states of others. Socialization within interdependent cultures may cultivate concerns about accurately perceiving other's emotional responses, yet at the same time, norms governing emotional control may limit competencies in emotion recognition. A sample of 264 Asian American and European American college students completed measures of social anxiety, attunement concerns (shame socialization and loss of face), and attunement competencies (self-reported sensitivity and performance on emotion recognition tasks). Results confirmed that ethnic differences in social anxiety symptoms were mediated by differences in attunement concerns and competencies in emotion recognition. Asian American college students may find themselves in a double bind that leads to social unease because of a cultural emphasis on sensitivity to others' emotions in the midst of barriers to developing this attunement skill set.
先前的研究表明，与欧美裔大学生相比，亚裔美国大学生的社交焦虑水平更高。作者推测，亚洲人较高的社交焦虑症状可能是由于在感知他人情绪状态方面的文化差异所致。相互依存文化中的社会化可能会培养人们对准确感知他人情绪反应的担忧，但与此同时，情绪控制规范可能会限制情绪识别能力。264名亚裔美国大学生和欧美裔大学生参与了调查，完成了社交焦虑、调节担忧（羞耻社会化和丢脸）以及调节能力（自我报告的情绪识别任务敏感性和表现）的测量。结果证实，社交焦虑症状的种族差异是由调节担忧和情绪识别能力的差异介导的。亚裔美国大学生可能会发现自己陷入了一种双重困境，这种困境导致社交不安，因为文化强调对他人情绪的敏感，而培养这种调节技能的过程中却存在障碍。
