Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Cogn Emot. 2012;26(4):577-86. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.592084. Epub 2011 Aug 9.
This study explored the anger-regulation strategies of bicultural individuals who are brought up with two distinct cultures that might carry contradictory demands about how to regulate emotions. With a sample of 525 adolescents in the Netherlands and Morocco, we found that bicultural Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' anger regulation in response to hypothetical peer conflict were largely similar to those of their Dutch peers. In fact, both the Dutch and the Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' anger regulation differed in the same ways from the Moroccan group, with greater acting out and less calm verbalisation, reflection, and diversion in the former than in the latter. Additionally, our findings indicate that Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' identification with the Dutch as well as with the Moroccan culture is related to more anger verbalisation and less externalising anger regulation. These results are interpreted in light of the complex cultural position faced by bicultural adolescents.
本研究探讨了在两种截然不同的文化中成长的双语个体的愤怒调节策略，这两种文化可能对如何调节情绪有相互矛盾的要求。通过对荷兰和摩洛哥的 525 名青少年进行抽样调查，我们发现，面对假设的同伴冲突，具有摩洛哥-荷兰双重文化背景的青少年的愤怒调节与荷兰青少年的愤怒调节大致相似。事实上，荷兰青少年和摩洛哥-荷兰青少年的愤怒调节与摩洛哥青少年的愤怒调节方式也有所不同，前者比后者更多地表现出冲动行为，较少进行冷静的言语表达、反思和转移。此外，我们的研究结果表明，摩洛哥-荷兰青少年对荷兰和摩洛哥文化的认同与更多的愤怒言语表达和较少的外化愤怒调节有关。这些结果是根据双语青少年所面临的复杂文化处境来解释的。
