Culture, Emotion, and Well-being: Good Feelings in Japan and the United States

By Shinobu Kitayama, H. Markus, Masaru Kurokawa. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Interplay Of Cultural Syndromes And Personality In Predicting Life Satisfaction (2003, background): “…are linked to definitions of SWB that are based on affirmation of one’s sense of individuality and autonomy versus affirmation of one’s relationships with others and group membership (Diener & Diener, 1995; Kitayama, Markus, and Kurokawa, 2000; Lu et al., 2001; Oishi, Diener, Lucas, & Suh, 1999).”
Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. (2003, background): “…reports of the experience of pleasant emotions were better predicted from relationship concerns than from independent self concerns, whereas European Americans’ experience of pleasant emotions was better predicted from self-concerns than from relationship concerns (see also Kitayama et al. 2000).”
Cultural influences on personality. (2002, background): “In a study by Kitayama et al. (2000) Americans reported more positive disengaged emotions (superior, proud, top of the world), whereas Japanese reported more interpersonally engaged emotions (friendly feelings, feel close, respect).”
Why Beliefs About Emotion Matter: An Emotion-Regulation Perspective (2018, positive): “For example, much prior work has demonstrated a link between culture and beliefs about emotion goodness, finding that these beliefs vary largely as a function of whether the emotions promote culturally supported norms (Kitayama, Markus, & Kurokawa, 2000; Tamir & Gutentag, 2017; Tsai, 2007).”
Celebrity Endorsements in Japan and the United States: Is Negative Information All That Harmful? (2006, background): “Regarding negative information specifically, in situations of success or failure, Americans’ self-image is based on self-enhancement, for the good of the individual, whereas Japanese are more likely to engage in self-criticism, showing how their actions hurt the collective good (Kitayama, Markus, Ma”
Dialecticism and the Co-occurrence of Positive and Negative Emotions Across Cultures (2010, result): “, 2002) and interdependence/ collectivism (Kitayama et al., 2000; Scollon et al., 2005).”
Psychometric Evaluation of the Tagalog and German Subjective Happiness Scales and a Cross-Cultural Comparison (2009, result): “In general, this supports previous studies that have shown partici pants from individualist countries to report more positive emotions and well-being than participants from collectivist countries (e.g., Diener et al. 1995; Kitayama et al. 2000).”