Pancultural Nostalgia: Prototypical Conceptions Across Cultures
Pancultural Nostalgia: Prototypical Conceptions Across Cultures
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泛文化怀旧：跨文化的原型概念。
DOI：
10.1037/a0036790
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Zhou, Xinyue
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作者：
Hepper, Erica G.;Wildschut, Tim;Zhou, Xinyue
怀旧是一种经常经历的复杂情感，英国和美利坚合众国的外行人将其理解为（a）典型地指的是喜爱的、与自身相关的社会记忆，以及（b）比不愉快（例如悲伤、遗憾）更令人愉快（例如，快乐、温暖）。这项研究探讨了不同文化背景的人们对怀旧的看法是否相同。来自五大洲 18 个国家的学生 (N = 1,704) 对 35 个怀旧特征的典型性进行了评分。这些样本在特征的排序上表现出高度的一致性。在所有国家中，参与者将先前确定的中心（与外围）特征评为更典型的怀旧情绪，并且在中心（与外围）特征方面表现出更大的个体间一致性。聚类分析揭示了不同国家群体之间在这些泛文化模式强度方面的微妙差异。除非洲国家外，所有国家都表现出相同的怀旧特征的因素结构。参与者以开放式格式生成的其他示例并不需要对现有的 35 个功能集进行详细说明。研究结果确定了关于怀旧概念的跨文化共识的关键点，支持怀旧是一种泛文化情感的观点。
Nostalgia is a frequently experienced complex emotion, understood by laypersons in the United Kingdom and United States of America to (a) refer prototypically to fond, self-relevant, social memories and (b) be more pleasant (e.g., happy, warm) than unpleasant (e.g., sad, regretful). This research examined whether people across cultures conceive of nostalgia in the same way. Students in 18 countries across 5 continents (N = 1,704) rated the prototypicality of 35 features of nostalgia. The samples showed high levels of agreement on the rank-order of features. In all countries, participants rated previously identified central (vs. peripheral) features as more prototypical of nostalgia, and showed greater interindividual agreement regarding central (vs. peripheral) features. Cluster analyses revealed subtle variation among groups of countries with respect to the strength of these pancultural patterns. All except African countries manifested the same factor structure of nostalgia features. Additional exemplars generated by participants in an open-ended format did not entail elaboration of the existing set of 35 features. Findings identified key points of cross-cultural agreement regarding conceptions of nostalgia, supporting the notion that nostalgia is a pancultural emotion.