Running head: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN REPRESSIVE COPING
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Repressive coping or repression had been well studied for its relationship with autobiographical memory and attention. Repression is also related with positive psychological adjustment outcome, negative physical health outcome, and negative narrative identity growth outcome. However, previous studies in this field of repression only included individualistic individuals such as Western Europeans or North Americans as their participants, though collectivistic East Asian individuals might differ from the former on how they repress negative memories and the following outcomes from their repression. Surprisingly, various cross-cultural researches in emotion regulation and autobiographical memory report than East Asian individuals exhibit similar characteristics with those of Western European repressors. This article questions the possible role of culture in framing the individual’s repression and ask if repressive coping is more prevalent in collectivistic than in individualistic cultures.
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