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Emotions in Everyday Social Encounters

Correspondence Between Culture and Self-Construal

College of William & Mary

Konstantinos Kafetsios

University of Crete

C. Veronica Smith

University of Delaware

Relationships between self-construal and emotion experiences in social interactions were examined in two countries. Participants in Greece (a more collectivist culture) and the United Kingdom (a more individualist culture) described the social interactions they had each day for 7 days using a variant of the Rochester Interaction Record. For UK participants, independent self-construal was positively related to positive affect, whereas for Greek participants, independent self-construal was negatively related to positive affect. There were few relationships between interdependent self-construal and affect in either study. The results point to the interplay of cultural values and individual differences in self-construal and their relationships to people's affective experiences.

Key Words: emotion • cultural values • social interaction • self-construal

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 4, 366-372 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108318114


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