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Cultural Differences In Emotion Regulation And Social Support Seeking, Vida Pourmand
Cultural Differences In Emotion Regulation And Social Support Seeking, Vida Pourmand
WWU Graduate School Collection
Given the negative influences of stress on health, it is important to examine beneficial processes like social support, which can promote greater health. However, the willingness to seek social support may be qualified by emotion regulation strategy. Research indicates that there are cultural differences in both social support seeking and emotion regulation processes. In this ecological momentary assessment design, participants (N = 49) reported on their daily stress, whether they sought social support during stressful times, and if they emotionally suppressed (N = 913). They also responded to individual differences measures, including interdependent cultural orientation and ethnicity. Multilevel modeling was …
My Story Is Not My Own: A Qualitative Analysis Of Personal Continuity And Group Narrative, Kristín G. (Kristin Guðbjörg) Haraldsson
My Story Is Not My Own: A Qualitative Analysis Of Personal Continuity And Group Narrative, Kristín G. (Kristin Guðbjörg) Haraldsson
WWU Graduate School Collection
Personal continuity, defined as having a sense of self that persists through time, is central to most theories of identity. People create personal continuity by creating a coherent life story that explains changes and stability in identity over time, commonly referred to as narrative identity. Recent research has begun to broaden the narrative approach to identity to emphasize the role that larger cultural forces play in shaping it. Building on this turn, the current study seeks to address a gap in the literature, exploring the role that social groups and their shared narratives play in personal continuity. This study was …