Emotion Regulation in Three Cultures: A Multi-contextual and Multi-level Study of Preschool-Age Children in the United States, China and Japan
Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Emotion regulation (ER) has been studied intensively, yet there are major gaps in research on the critical role of contexts and cultural meanings of these contexts in the development of ER. Moreover, ER involves dynamic regulation at behavioral and neurobiological levels, systems that become sensitive to cultural contexts/priorities for adaptation. However, we know little about how children’s ER systems are sensitive to cultural contexts/priorities, and at which levels of regulatory processing. In my dissertation, using multi-level and multi-contextual assessments of preschoolers in the United States, China and Japan, I will first examine cross-cultural similarities and differences in behavioral aspects of emotion expression and regulation among preschoolers living in three cultures. Second, I will determine whether children’s neurobiological systems of ER are differentially sensitive to contexts. Finally, I will examine how cultural contexts/priorities may shape children’s ER at both behavioral and physiological levels (emotional expressions and cortisol reactivity). I conclude by discussing implications for understanding ER as a complex system in cross-cultural perspectives.
Author: Ka I Ip
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3136478490