Are Cultural Differences in Emotion Regulation Mediated by Personality Traits?

This article reports a study that documents United States–Japan differences in emotion regulation and demonstrates that those differences are entirely accounted for by individual differences in personality. These findings raise questions about studies that merely document cross-national differences...

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Published inJournal of cross-cultural psychology Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 421 - 437
Main Author Matsumoto, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.07.2006
Subjects
American people
Crosscultural aspects
Emotions
Japanese people
Personality
emotion regulation
emotion
mediation
personality
culture
unpackaging
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Summary:This article reports a study that documents United States–Japan differences in emotion regulation and demonstrates that those differences are entirely accounted for by individual differences in personality. These findings raise questions about studies that merely document cross-national differences in a psychological variable yet attribute the source of the observed differences to cultural variables without empirical justification to do so. Such differences may be accounted for by aggregate differences in personality.
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ISSN:0022-0221
1552-5422
DOI:10.1177/0022022106288478