Emotion Processes in Ethnic Minority Children

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究将增加我们对情绪过程和社会情绪结果的文化影响的理解。情绪发展的研究已经建立了适应不良的情绪过程和不良的社会和行为结果之间的明确联系。然而，什么是适应不良或适应性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，而中国文化则强调情感的适度。由于大多数关于情绪发展的研究都是使用欧美样本，我们对以下问题知之甚少：1）来自不同文化的儿童表达和调节情绪的方式; 2）儿童如何从他们的文化中获得这些行为; 3）与后来的社会和行为结果相关的情绪行为。此外，目前还不清楚生活在两种环境中的少数民族儿童如何发展这些情感过程，这两种环境在很大程度上具有相反的情感目标（例如，中国移民家庭，美国主流学校）。这项研究有可能设计有效的干预少数民族儿童通过确定特定的因素，在文化和情绪预测不良的社会情绪的结果。

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.