title: Emotion valence, intensity and emotion regulation in immigrants and majority members in the Netherlands.
abstract: We were interested in interethnic differences and similarities in how emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal, suppression and social sharing) can be predicted by emotion valence and intensity. The sample consisted of 389 Dutch majority members and members of five immigrant groups: 136 Turkish and Moroccan, 105 Antillean and Surinamese, 102 Indonesian, 313 Western and 150 other non-Western immigrants. In a path model with latent variables we confirmed that emotion regulation strategies were significantly and similarly related to emotion valence and intensity across the groups. Negative emotions were more reappraised and suppressed than positive emotions. Intensity was positively related to social sharing and negatively related to reappraisal and suppression. The Dutch majority group scored higher on emotion valence than Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. Also, the Dutch majority group scored lower on reappraisal than all non-Western groups, and lower on suppression than Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. We conclude that group differences reside more in mean scores on some components than in how antecedents are linked to regulation strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Snežana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stupar
authors.affiliation: Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.|WorkWell: Research Unit for Economics and Management Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.|School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Fons J R
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: van de Vijver
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
authors.forename: Johnny R J
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Fontaine
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology
keywords: Emotion regulation; Emotion valence and intensity; Immigrants; the Netherlands