Are Positive Emotions Just as "Positive" Across Cultures?

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 994-999

  Leu, Janxin ^a   Wang, Jennifer ^a   Koo, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Depression; Dialectical emotions; East Asians; Positive emotions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEGATIVE EMOTION; POSITIVE EMOTION;

ACCULTURATION; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052294056     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021332     Document Type: Article

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