Rating Emotion Communication: Display and Concealment as Effects of Culture, Gender, Emotion Type, and Relationship

• Autores: Arne Vikan, Maria da Graça Bompastor Borges Dias, Antonio Roazzi
• Localización: Revista interamericana de psicología = Interamerican journal of psychology, ISSN 0034-9690, Vol. 43, Nº. 1, 2009, págs. 77-83
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Availando a Comunicaçao da Emoçao: O Ato de Mostrar e Ocultar como Efeitos da Cultura, Gênero, Tipo de Emoçao e Relacionamento
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  • português

    Estudantes de uma cultura coletivista (brasileiros, n= 401) e uma individualista (noruegueses, n= 418) pontuam suas habilidades em demonstrar e esconder raiva, tristeza e ansiedade em relação à família, companheiro, amigos e "outras pessoas". Noruegueses mostram pontuações mais altas na manifestação da raiva e tristeza, e menores pontuações para encobrir raiva e ansiedade. As pontuações de expor foram muito mais altas, e o ocultar muito mais baixas em relação a pessoas mais íntimas do que em relação a "outras pessoas". Uma interação entre cultura x relacionamento apresenta que os escores dos brasileiros sugerem maior abertura emocional para amigos do que para familiares e companheiros, enquanto os noruegueses denotam um o padrão inverso. Diferenças de gêneros apóiam pesquisas anteriores evidenciando que o sexo feminino tem escores mais elevado em expressar emoções e menores escores em esconder; também demonstram menos diferenciação entre os relacionamentos.

  • English

    Students from a collectivistic (Brazilian, n= 401) and an individualistic (Norwegian, n= 418)culture rated their ability to display and conceal anger, sadness, and anxiety in relation to immediate family, partner, friends, and "other persons." Norwegians showed higher display ratings for anger and sadness, and higher concealment ratings for anger and anxiety. Display ratings were much higher, and concealment ratings much lower in relation to close persons than in relation to "other persons." A culture x relationship interaction was that Brazilian' ratings suggested more emotional openness to friends than to family and partner, whereas Norwegians showed the inverse patterns. Gender differences supported previous research by showing higher display and lower concealment ratings, and less differentiation between relationships by females.

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