Naslov
Do individualists and collectivists have different patterns of emotional experience?

Autori
Šverko, Dina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
14th Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition

Mjesto i datum
Trst, Italija, 26.10.2006. - 27.10.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
individualism; collectivism; emotions

Sažetak
Cross-cultural studies demonstrated that dimensions of cultural variations such as individualism and collectivism can shape peoples’ emotional experience. It was hypothesized that the same differences in emotional experience found among individualistic and collectivistic cultures can analogously be found between individuals within a culture who differ in their individualistic and collectivistic dispositions. Participants were 415 students from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) and they were asked to complete a measure of individualistic and collectivistic dispositions (Individualism-Collectivism Questionnaire, Singelis et al., 1995) and to rate the extent to which they currently experience each particular emotion from a list of 83 emotions. The results of multiple regression analysis indicate that collectivistic disposition is positively related to amity and fear and negatively to boredom and jealousy ; these emotion variables accounted for 13% of the variance of the collectivistic criterion variable. Further, it was found that jealousy, contempt and elation are positively related to individualistic disposition, whereas sympathy, serenity and fear are negatively related to it ; these emotion predictors accounted for 13% of the variance of the individualism criterion variable. The obtained results impose the conclusion that the social orientations of independence vs. interdependence reflected in dispositional collectivism and individualism show a logical pattern of relations to dominant emotional experience.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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