Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA.
Biol Psychol. 2010 Jul;84(3):521-30. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.09.010. Epub 2009 Sep 26.
Cultural context affects people's values regarding emotions, as well as their experiential and behavioral but not autonomic physiological responses to emotional situations. Little research, however, has examined how cultural context influences the relationships among values and emotional responding. Specifically, depending on their cultural context, individuals' values about emotion control (ECV; the extent to which they value emotion control) may have differing meanings, and as such, be associated with differing responses in emotional situations. We examined this possibility by testing the effect of two cultural contexts (28 female Asian-American (AA) versus 28 female European-American (EA) undergraduate students) on the associations between individuals' ECV and emotional responding (experiential, behavioral, and cardiovascular) to a relatively neutral film clip and a laboratory anger provocation. In the AA group, greater ECV were associated with reduced anger experience and behavior, and a challenge pattern of cardiovascular responding. In the EA group, greater ECV were associated with reduced anger behavior but not anger experience, and a threat pattern of cardiovascular responding. These results are consistent with the notion that individuals' values about emotion are associated with different meanings in different cultural contexts, and in turn, with different emotional and cardiovascular responses.
文化背景会影响人们对情绪的价值观，以及他们对情绪情境的体验性和行为性但非自主性生理反应。然而，很少有研究探讨文化背景如何影响价值观和情绪反应之间的关系。具体来说，根据他们的文化背景，个体对情绪控制（ECV；他们重视情绪控制的程度）的价值观可能具有不同的含义，因此，在情绪情境中会与不同的反应相关联。我们通过测试两种文化背景（28 名亚裔美国女性（AA）与 28 名欧洲裔美国女性（EA）本科生）对个体 ECV 与对相对中性的电影片段和实验室愤怒诱发的情绪反应（体验、行为和心血管）之间的关联的影响来检验这种可能性。在 AA 组中，更大的 ECV 与愤怒体验和行为减少以及心血管反应的挑战模式相关。在 EA 组中，更大的 ECV 与愤怒行为减少但与愤怒体验无关，与心血管反应的威胁模式相关。这些结果与这样一种观点一致，即个体对情绪的价值观在不同的文化背景下具有不同的含义，进而与不同的情绪和心血管反应相关。
