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Culture and emotion regulation
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While anthropological research has long emphasized cultural differences in whether emotions are viewed as beneficial versus harmful, psychological science has only recently begun to systematically examine those differences and their implications for emotion regulation and well-being. Underscoring the pervasive role of culture in people's emotions, we summarize research that has examined links between culture, emotion regulation, and well-being. Specifically, we focus on two questions. First, how does culture lead individuals to regulate their emotions? And second, how does culture modulate the link between emotion regulation and well-being? We finish by suggesting directions for future research to advance the study of culture and emotion regulation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ford, B. Q., & Mauss, I. B.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ford, Brett Q
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-06
- Volume
- 3
- Pages
- 1-5
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4341898
- OpenAlex
- W2167708481
- Cited by
- 340
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 41 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 2.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health Affective Science Training Fellowship (5T32MH020006)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- culture, emotion regulation, well-being, cultural differences in emotion, cross-cultural psychology
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