A comparative study on the influence of culture in the development of emotion regulation: the case of Mainland Chinese and British adolescent students
Introduction Every human being in this planet experiences emotions. Everyone conveys emotions in particular ways. Emotion is a cultural construct. Culture is generally referred to as the totality of life. Emotion and its regulation is part and parcel of that totality. Upon reaching a specific developmental phase, one learns what, when, why, and how to do a specific action. Thus, culture dictates the development of regulating emotions, and this view is the exact concern of this study. How would the Chinese, predominantly from the mainland, view emotion, as opposed to the British? What could be embedded within these two cultures that could define the emergence of a particular emotion regulation among their adolescents? Claire Champion, Nancy Eisenberg, and Yue Ma (2004) have laid down a number of recommendations in pursuing a study on emotion regulation. One of these deals with culture wherein, they prescribed that a comparative study, i.e. looking for similarities and differences betw...