Center for Social and Cultural Psychology.
Department of Psychology, University of California.
Emotion. 2014 Apr;14(2):241-5. doi: 10.1037/a0035296. Epub 2013 Dec 23.
There is increasing evidence for emotional fit in couples and groups, but also within cultures. In the current research, we investigated the consequences of emotional fit at the cultural level. Given that emotions reflect people's view on the world, and that shared views are associated with good social relationships, we expected that an individual's fit to the average cultural patterns of emotion would be associated with relational well-being. Using an implicit measure of cultural fit of emotions, we found across 3 different cultural contexts (United States, Belgium, and Korea) that (1) individuals' emotional fit is associated with their level of relational well-being, and that (2) the link between emotional fit and relational well-being is particularly strong when emotional fit is measured for situations pertaining to relationships (rather than for situations that are self-focused). Together, the current studies suggest that people may benefit from emotionally "fitting in" to their culture.
越来越多的证据表明，夫妻和群体之间存在情感契合，文化内部也存在情感契合。在当前的研究中，我们调查了文化层面情感契合的后果。鉴于情绪反映了人们对世界的看法，而共同的看法与良好的社会关系有关，我们预计个体与文化中平均情绪模式的契合度将与关系幸福感相关。我们使用情绪文化契合的内隐测量方法，在 3 个不同的文化背景（美国、比利时和韩国）中发现，（1）个体的情绪契合度与他们的关系幸福感水平相关，并且（2）当情绪契合度是针对与关系相关的情境（而不是针对自我关注的情境）进行测量时，情绪契合度与关系幸福感之间的联系更为紧密。总的来说，这些研究表明，人们可能会从情感上“融入”他们的文化中受益。
