title: Where do my emotions belong? A study of immigrants' emotional acculturation.
abstract: The emotional experiences of people who live together tend to be similar; this is true not only for dyads and groups but also for cultures. It raises the question of whether immigrants' emotions become more similar to host culture patterns of emotional experience; do emotions acculturate? Two studies, on Korean immigrants in the United States (Study 1) and on Turkish immigrants in Belgium (Study 2), measured emotional experiences of immigrants and host group members with the Emotional Patterns Questionnaire. To obtain a measure of the immigrants' emotional similarity to the host group, their individual emotional patterns were correlated to the average pattern of the host group. Immigrants' exposure to and engagement in the host culture, but not their acculturation attitudes, predicted emotional acculturation.
authors.affiliation: University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Jozefien.DeLeersnyder@psy.kuleuven.be
authors.forename: Jozefien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Leersnyder
authors.forename: Batja
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mesquita
authors.forename: Heejung S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004644:Emotions; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012925:Social Conformity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult