Investigating Emotion in Malay, Australian and Iranian Individuals with and without Depression.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the influence of culture and depression on (1) emotion priming reactions, (2) the recall of subjective experience of emotion, and (3) emotion meaning. Members of individualistic culture (Australia, n = 42) and collectivistic culture (Iran, n = 32, Malaysia, n = 74) with and without depression completed a biological motion task, subjective experience questionnaire and emotion meaning questionnaire. Those with depression, regardless of cultural group, provided significantly fewer correct responses on the biological motion task than the control group. Second, the collectivistic control groups reported greater social engaging emotion than the Australian control group. However, the three depressed groups did not differ culturally. The Australian depressed group reported

SUBMITTER: Jobson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892853 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature