Emotion regulation and culture: are the social consequences of emotion suppression culture-specific?

By Emily Butler, Tiane L. Lee, James J. Gross. Emotion, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Regulatory Flexibility (2013, background): “Butler et al. (2007) later showed, however, that these kinds of social costs vary by cultural values.”
We have emotions but can’t show them! Authoritarian leadership, emotion suppression climate, and team performance (2020, background): “Importantly, emotion suppression is not simply a lack of expression but rather involves the active reduction of emotion expression in order to inhibit a positive or negative expression of an emotional response (Butler et al., 2007; Gross and Levenson, 1993, 1997).”
Improving Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Existing Work and Future Challenges (2018, background): “Because cultural contexts affect emotion regulation processes (Butler et al., 2007), for example due to various cultural emotional norms (Leys, Licata, Marchal, & Bernard, 2011), it may be worth investigating to what extent or under which circumstances emotional intelligence processes may produce…”
Emotion regulation and need satisfaction shape a motivating teaching style (2020, background): “Interventions aimed at fostering emotion regulation abilities were found effective with teachers (for a review see Roeser et al., 2012), although might need an adaptation in different cultures (e.g. Butler et al., 2007).”
The psychology of emotion regulation: An integrative review (2009, background): “Consistent with this, recent work has shown that, among individuals with Asian cultural values, expressive suppression is associated with neither increased negative emotion nor reduced social responsiveness (Butler et al., 2007).”