Abstract
Research on emotional development has been primarily focused on children from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic backgrounds. However, cultural beliefs and norms play an important role in the acceptability of children’s emotional expressions and emotion-related behaviors. In this chapter, we first provide a brief overview of how people’s emotions differ across cultures. Then, we discuss how cultural values shape emotion socialization, particularly parental emotional expressivity, parent-child conversation, and parental reactions to children’s emotions, and further point out how these culturally shaped emotion socialization practices influence children’s emotional development. Finally, we review literature on children’s emotional development across cultures, including cultural similarities and differences in temperament, emotional expression and experience, emotion recognition, emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and emotional well-being.
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