TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures
JO  - American psychologist, The
A1  - Tamir, Maya
A1  - Ito, Atsuki
A1  - Miyamoto, Yuri
A1  - Chentsova-Dutton, Yulia
A1  - Choi, Jeong Ha
A1  - Cieciuch, Jan
A1  - Riediger, Michaela
A1  - Rauers, Antje
A1  - Padun, Maria
A1  - Kim, Min Young
A1  - Solak, Nevin
A1  - Qiu, Jiang
A1  - Wang, Xiaoqin
A1  - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
A1  - Hanoch, Yaniv
A1  - Uchida, Yukiko
A1  - Torres, Claudio
A1  - Nascimento, Thiago Gomes
A1  - Afshar Jahanshahi, Asghar
A1  - Singh, Rakesh
A1  - Kamble, Shanmukh V.
A1  - An, Sieun
A1  - Dzokoto, Vivian
A1  - Anum, Adote
A1  - Singh, Babita
A1  - Castelnuovo, Gianluca
A1  - Pietrabissa, Giada
A1  - Huerta-Carvajal, María Isabel
A1  - Galindo-Bello, Erika
A1  - García Ibarra, Verónica Janneth
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study (N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed associations between the use of seven emotion regulation strategies (situation selection, distraction, rumination, cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, expressive suppression, and emotional support seeking) and four indices of psychological health (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and loneliness). Model comparisons based on Bayesian information criteria provided support for cultural differences in 36% of associations, with very strong support for differences in 18% of associations. Strategies that were linked to worse psychological health in individualist countries (e.g., rumination, expressive suppression) were unrelated or linked to better psychological health in collectivist countries. Cultural differences in associations with psychological health were most prominent for expressive suppression and rumination and also found for distraction and acceptance. In addition, we found evidence for cultural similarities in 46% of associations between strategies and psychological health, but none of this evidence was very strong. Cultural similarities were most prominent in associations of psychological health with emotional support seeking. These findings highlight the importance of considering the cultural context to understand how individuals from diverse backgrounds manage unpleasant emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-066X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0001237
ID  - ref1
ER  -