Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study (N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed associations between the use of seven emotion regulation strategies (situation selection, distraction, rumination, cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, expressive suppression, and emotional support seeking) and four indices of psychological health (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and loneliness). Model comparisons based on Bayesian information criteria provided support for cultural differences in 36% of associations, with very strong support for differences in 18% of associations. Strategies that were linked to worse psychological health in individualist countries (e.g., rumination, expressive suppression) were unrelated or linked to better psychological health in collectivist countries. Cultural differences in associations with psychological health were most prominent for expressive suppression and rumination and also found for distraction and acceptance. In addition, we found evidence for cultural similarities in 46% of associations between strategies and psychological health, but none of this evidence was very strong. Cultural similarities were most prominent in associations of psychological health with emotional support seeking. These findings highlight the importance of considering the cultural context to understand how individuals from diverse backgrounds manage unpleasant emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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跨文化的情绪调节策略和心理健康。

情绪调节对于心理健康很重要，可以通过实施各种策略来实现。一个人如何调节情绪对于最大化心理健康至关重要。然而，很少有研究测试跨多种文化的不同情绪调节策略的心理相关性。在 COVID-19 大流行期间进行的一项预先注册的跨文化研究（N = 3,960，19 个国家）中，我们评估了使用七种情绪调节策略（情境选择、分散注意力、沉思、认知重新评估、接受、表达抑制）之间的关联。 、寻求情感支持）和心理健康的四项指标（生活满意度、抑郁症状、感知压力和孤独感）。基于贝叶斯信息标准的模型比较为 36% 的协会中的文化差异提供了支持，并为 18% 的协会中的差异提供了非常有力的支持。在个人主义国家，与较差的心理健康相关的策略（例如沉思、表达抑制）在集体主义国家与更好的心理健康无关或相关。与心理健康相关的文化差异在表达抑制和沉思方面最为突出，在分心和接受方面也存在差异。此外，我们发现 46% 的策略与心理健康之间的关联存在文化相似性的证据，但这些证据都不是非常有力。文化相似性在心理健康与情感支持寻求的关联中最为突出。这些发现强调了考虑文化背景以了解来自不同背景的个人如何管理不愉快情绪的重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。