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KMID : 0981220080080020075
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2008 Volume.8 No. 2 p.75 ~ p.89
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Self-Disclosure and Emotional Expressiveness in Asian and European American Women
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Park Soo-Hyun
Brody Leslie R.
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Abstract
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The present study investigated the relation between ethnicity, generation status, and self-disclosure of emotional experiences in a sample of 88 East Asian and 88 European American women. The participants rated how often and with whom they speak about emotional experiences after they were asked to recollect and describe a past traumatic experience. Compared to European Americans, Asian Americans considered disclosing emotional experiences to one’s spouse and family members to be less appropriate and reported they had spoken about the event less frequently and with fewer individuals. The results of the study indicated that generation status may be especially relevant in the social sharing dimension such that individuals with a more recent immigration history may find it more difficult to share emotional experiences.
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KEYWORD
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Self-disclosure, cross-cultural differences, emotional expressiveness, ethnicity
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