Saarni C
Department of Counseling, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA.
Dev Psychol. 1998 Jul;34(4):647-52. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.34.4.647.
All 3 articles addressed in this commentary reflect a Western cultural model in their investigation of emotional development. Each used Western cultural scripts in how data were collected and then applied further culture-based scripts in attributing meaningfulness to what was elicited. The commentary also examines several other related concerns: (a) the search for universals versus a focus on cultural specificity, (b) the effect of the unit of analysis when comparing emotional development across cultures, (c) whose perspective is used when proclaiming some phenomenon as universal, and (d) the nature of change in emotional development when taking culture into account. A more productive approach in researchers' attempts to understand emotional development across different societies may be one that consults with and genuinely attempts to integrate an intercultural viewpoint in the design and interpretation of research.
本评论所涉及的所有三篇文章在对情感发展的研究中都反映了西方文化模式。每篇文章在数据收集方式上都采用了西方文化脚本，然后在赋予所引出内容以意义时又应用了更多基于文化的脚本。本评论还探讨了其他几个相关问题：（a）对普遍性的探寻与对文化特殊性的关注，（b）跨文化比较情感发展时分析单位的影响，（c）宣称某种现象具有普遍性时所采用的视角，以及（d）考虑文化因素时情感发展变化的本质。研究人员试图理解不同社会中情感发展的一种更有效的方法可能是，在研究的设计和解释过程中咨询并真正尝试整合跨文化观点。
