Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Cogn Emot. 2020 Dec;34(8):1573-1590. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1781063. Epub 2020 Jun 19.
When immigrant minorities engage in a new cultural context, their patterns of emotional experience come to change - a process we coined . To date, research on emotional acculturation focused on the antecedents and consequences of changes in minorities' fit with the new culture. Yet, most minorities also continue to engage in their culture. Therefore, the current research investigated which personal and situational factors afford minorities to maintain emotional fit with their heritage culture. Two studies compared the emotional patterns of Korean Americans ( = 49) with those of Koreans in Korea (= 80), and the emotional patterns of Turkish Belgians (= 144) with those of Turks in Turkey (= 250), respectively. As expected, we found that although minorities did not fit the heritage emotional patterns as well as participants in their home countries, spending time with heritage culture friends and interacting in heritage culture settings explained within-group differences in minorities' heritage culture fit. Therefore, the current research shows that minorities' emotional patterns are not only cultivated, but also activated by their interactions in different socio-cultural contexts. Moreover, it provides further evidence for cultural frame-switching in the domain of emotion.
当移民少数群体进入新的文化环境时，他们的情感体验模式会发生变化——我们将这个过程称为“情绪文化适应”。迄今为止，关于情绪文化适应的研究主要集中在少数群体与新文化的契合度变化的前因和后果上。然而，大多数少数群体仍然会参与自己的文化。因此，目前的研究调查了哪些个人和情境因素使少数群体能够保持与他们的传统文化的情感契合。两项研究分别比较了美籍韩裔（ = 49）和韩国的韩国人（ = 80）以及比利时土耳其裔（ = 144）和土耳其的土耳其人（ = 250）的情感模式。正如预期的那样，我们发现，尽管少数群体并不像他们在自己国家的参与者那样符合传统的情感模式，但与传统文化背景的朋友交往并在传统文化环境中互动，解释了少数群体在传统文化契合度方面的群体内差异。因此，目前的研究表明，少数群体的情感模式不仅是被培养的，而且还会受到他们在不同社会文化环境中的互动的激发。此外，它为情绪领域的文化框架转换提供了进一步的证据。
