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Bicultural adolescents' anger regulation: in between two cultures?
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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:38 authored by Sheida Novin, Robin Banerjee, Carolien RieffeThis study explored the anger-regulation strategies of bicultural individuals who are brought up with two distinct cultures that might carry contradictory demands about how to regulate emotions. With a sample of 525 adolescents in the Netherlands and Morocco, we found that bicultural Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' anger regulation in response to hypothetical peer conflict were largely similar to those of their Dutch peers. In fact, both the Dutch and the Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' anger regulation differed in the same ways from the Moroccan group, with greater acting out and less calm verbalisation, reflection, and diversion in the former than in the latter. Additionally, our findings indicate that Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' identification with the Dutch as well as with the Moroccan culture is related to more anger verbalisation and less externalising anger regulation. These results are interpreted in light of the complex cultural position faced by bicultural adolescents
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Cognition & EmotionISSN
0269-9931Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
Issue
4Volume
26Page range
577-586Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes