Emotions Across Cultures and Methods

By Christie Napa Scollon, E. Diener, S. Oishi, R. Biswas-Diener. 2004

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Participants included 46 European American, 33 Asian American, 91 Japanese, 160 Indian, and 80 Hispanic students (N = 416). Discrete emotions, as well as pleasant and unpleasant emotions, were assessed: (a) with global self-report measures, (b) using an experience-sampling method for 1 week, and (c) by asking participants to recall their emotions from the experience sampling week. Cultural differences emerged for nearly all measures. The inclusion of indigenous emotions in India and Japan did not alter the conclusions substantially, although pride showed a pattern across cultures that differed from the other positive emotions. In all five culturalgroupsandforbothpleasantandunpleasantemotions,globalreportsof emotionpredictedretrospective recall even after controllingforreportsmadeduringthe experiencesamplingperiod,suggestingthat individuals’ general conceptions of their emotional lives influenced their memories of emotions. Cultural differences emerged in the degree to which recall of frequency of emotion was related to experience sampling reports of intensity of emotions. Despite the memory bias, the three methods led to similar conclusions about the relative position of the groups.

Subfields: Social Psychology

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Universal Intracultural and Intercultural Dimensions of the Recalled Frequency of Emotional Experience (2006, result): “It was decided not to include culture-specific emotion terms for each nation because this would complicate a clear-cut comparison of cultures and because prior research suggests that the inclusion of culture-specific terms does not substantially alter obtained emotion structures (meaning that such t”
Emotions in Tourism: Theoretical Designs, Measurements, Analytics, and Interpretations (2020, background): “Several studies demonstrate the convergent validity between aggregated experience sampling data and retrospective emotional reports (e.g., Barrett 1997; Scollon et al. 2004).”
Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, unknown): “Oishi & Sullivan (2006); Robinson & Clore (2002); Scollon et al. (2004); Thomas & Diener (1990) Evaluative Well-Being People’s explicit evaluations and judgments of their lives, including both Life Satisfaction, Domain Satisfactions, and other evaluative judgments about their life.”
New Measures of Well-Being (2009, background): “Another problem in measuring affective well-being is that some feelings might be experienced as positive in some cultures and as negative in other cultures, for example “pride” and “gratitude” (Kitayama, Markus, & Kurosawa, 2000; Scollon et al., 2004; Oishi, 2007).”
Mother and Child Emotions during Mathematics Homework (2008, background): “Some research indicates that pride is discouraged and expressed less in Asians and Asian-Americans than in Hispanics and European Americans (Scollon et al., 2004).”
Culture and Subjective Well-Being (2013, background): “An important topic for future investigations is whether specific pleasant emotions are beneficial whereas others (e.g., pride; Eid & Diener, 2001; Scollon et al., 2004) are detrimental for success in certain cultures.”