Emotion Processes in Ethnic Minority Children

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究将增加我们对文化对情绪过程和社会情绪结果的影响的理解。情绪发展方面的研究已经在不适应的情绪过程和不良的社会和行为结果之间建立了明确的联系。然而，什么是不适应或适应取决于情绪发生的文化背景。例如，美国主流文化提倡开放的情感表达，而中国文化强调情感节制。由于大多数关于情绪发展的研究使用的是欧美样本，我们对1)来自不同文化的儿童表达和调节他们的情绪的方式，2)儿童如何从他们的文化中获得这些行为，以及3)与后来的社会和行为结果相关的情绪行为知之甚少。此外，尚不清楚生活在两种情感目标截然相反的环境中的少数民族儿童(例如移民的中国家庭、主流的美国学校)是如何发展这些情绪过程的。本研究有可能通过识别文化和情绪中的特定因素来预测不良的社会情绪结果，从而为少数民族儿童设计有效的干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research will increase our understanding of cultural influences on emotion processes and socioemotional outcomes. Research in emotion development has established clear links between maladaptive emotion processes and poor social and behavioral outcomes. However, what is maladaptive or adaptive depends on the cultural context in which the emotion takes place. For instance, while mainstream American culture promotes open emotion expression, Chinese culture emphasizes emotion moderation. Since most of research in emotion development uses European American samples, we know little about 1) the way in which children from different cultures express and regulate their emotions, 2) how children acquire these behaviors from their culture, and 3) the emotion behaviors associated with later social and behavioral outcomes. Furthermore, it is unknown how ethnic minority children who live in two contexts with largely opposing goals for emotion (e.g. immigrant Chinese home, mainstream American school) develop these emotion processes. This study has the potential to design effective intervention for ethnic minority children by identifying the specific factors in culture and emotion that predict poor socioemotional outcomes.