Purpose: this study was to suggest the future direction of studies on expressed emotion in Korea, by examining the cross-cultural diversity of an expressed emotion concept.
Method: The study was conducted by analysing the trends of various 52 articles on the expressed emotion.
Result: 1. The design of study indicated that there was more remarkable increase in the number of surveys and studies on the expressed emotion in the later 1990s, while no special care was nearly taken to their quality.
2. This study was carried out with families having chronic psychiatric patients that accounted for 42(93.3%) of all the subjected 45. It was shown that the major mental disease in the earlier 1990s was such mental disorder as schizophrenia, however, while it included even chronic mental patients in addition to the mental disorder in the later 1990s.
3. Those studies were mainly published in academic magazines in psychologic medicine in the earlier 1990s because most of their researchers was a doctor. In the later 1990s, however, they were reported in several kinds of academic magazines.
4. Under such circumstances, nevertheless, it was continuously true that only very few studies had been carried out by nurses. Countries' trends of studies showed that the most studies were performed in England, where the concept of expressed emotion had been developed firstly. In the later 1990s, then, there were a variety of approaches to the expressed emotion in several countries all over the world, including the studies on the cross-cultural review of expressed emotion, literature examinations, and the development of mediation programs.
5. The most results of this literaview was that expressed emotion of family realted in incidence of relapse who has chronic schizophrenia.
Conclusion: espressed emotion was related in between family with chronic schizophrenic disease and incidence of relapse schizophrenic patients’. so espressed emotion is very important concepts on the course of chronic psychiatric diseases.
The sugessions based on the results are as Follows: 1) In Korea, more studies cross-cultural should be performed to reexamine the regional concept of expressed emotion. 2) The survey and research are required to understand the effect of the expressed emotion concept of, not only chronic mental patients but also diabetus melitus,obesity, chronic renal failure, dementia, chilid adjustment disorder, adolescent mental disease, elderly people. 3) More studies of which nurse’s expressed emotion toward psychiatric patients and nurse’s study about expressed emotion of family should be carried out. 4) It is necessary study for development of instrument available to evaluate the expressed emotion considering Korean characteristics. 5) An ethno-nursing study is needed to understand the behavior languages of Korean expressed emotion.
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