TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-person changes in the structure of emotion
T2 - The role of cultural identification and language
AU - Perunovic, Wei Qi Elaine
AU - Heller, Daniel
AU - Rafaeli, Eshkol
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to the second author. We thank Michael Ross and David Watson for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript, Erik Woody for his statistical advice, and Penny Deeth, Jennifer Komar, and Shawn Komar for their assistance with conducting the study.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - This study explored the within-person dynamic organization of emotion in East-Asian Canadian bicultural individuals as they function in two cultural worlds. Using a diary design, we examined under what conditions their emotional structure resembles that of Westerners or that of East Asians. As predicted, when these bicultural individuals identified with a Western culture or had recently spoken a non-Asian language, their positive and negative affect were inversely associated. When they identified with an Asian culture or interacted in an Asian language, this inverse association disappeared. This study shows that as bicultural individuals identify and communicate with members of one or the other cultural group, they may adopt a culturally congruent phenomenology, including a distinct affective pattern.
AB - This study explored the within-person dynamic organization of emotion in East-Asian Canadian bicultural individuals as they function in two cultural worlds. Using a diary design, we examined under what conditions their emotional structure resembles that of Westerners or that of East Asians. As predicted, when these bicultural individuals identified with a Western culture or had recently spoken a non-Asian language, their positive and negative affect were inversely associated. When they identified with an Asian culture or interacted in an Asian language, this inverse association disappeared. This study shows that as bicultural individuals identify and communicate with members of one or the other cultural group, they may adopt a culturally congruent phenomenology, including a distinct affective pattern.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547377379&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01947.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01947.x
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AN - SCOPUS:34547377379
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 18
SP - 607
EP - 613
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 7
ER -