Where do my emotions belong? a Study of immigrants' emotional acculturation

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-463

  de Leersnyder, Jozefien ^a   Mesquita, Batja ^a   Kim, Heejung S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Culture; Emotion; Emotional similarity; Implicit measure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BELGIUM; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMOTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953682818     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211399103     Document Type: Article

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