東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Spea...

Nan, Hui-mei.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study./
作者:	Nan, Hui-mei.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	167 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12B.
標題:	Asian Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13807116
ISBN:	9781392168301

Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study.
Nan, Hui-mei.

Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 167 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelphi University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Psychotherapy relies heavily on verbal interaction to bring about emotional changes that can reduce suffering and enable individuals to live more satisfying lives. Telling personal stories, which are rich in vivid details, allows the listener to feel what the speaker feels, and helps the speaker to understand their experience in the moment, and to think about where they are heading in the future. Research indicates that emotional disclosure, appropriately used, may be beneficial to people's physical and mental health, and an important element in therapeutic change.Chinese culture is known to discourage direct expression of strong emotions. On the one hand, Chinese Americans underutilize mental health service. On the other hand, in Chinese societies, the exposure to Western culture and the disruption of the healing tradition has led to intense need for psychological services and training. The application of psychotherapy in Chinese populations, with a different language and different cultural associations, is a great challenge with little research conducted as yet. The current study, designed as a partial analogue of psychotherapy, aimed to investigate the linguistic features and emotional effects when Chinese speakers were engaged in disclosing emotional and personal memories.In interviews collected for a previous study, Nan (2011), 34 participants (18 males and 16 females) from a non-clinical sample of Chinese speakers living in New York were asked to tell an early memory and a recent emotionally powerful event. During the interview, conducted in their native language, the participants were also asked to rate the emotional intensity felt and to characterize the emotions at three time points: when the event happened (Time 1), before telling (Time 2) and after telling the memories (Time 3). The language style of the narratives was scored for referential activity (RA), a measure of the concreteness, specificity, clarity and imagery of language, and the relationship between RA and change in emotional intensity and characterization was evaluated. The RA of the narratives in this sample was also compared to the RA of narratives from Asian American and general American samples (Welsh, 2009; King, 2011).As predicted, Chinese speakers obtained higher levels of RA in the early memory than recent memory narratives as has been shown in other populations (Welsh, 2009, Murphy, 2012). Contrary to prediction, Chinese women and men displayed an equivalent level of engagement (measured by RA) when telling early memories and no significant relationship between emotion change and RA was found. In comparison to the other two American born samples, the Chinese speaking sample had the lowest level of emotion change after describing an early memory. Both Asian samples showed significantly lower levels of emotion change than the American community samples. While Chinese speakers were more engaged (measured by RA) in telling their early memories than recent memories, this higher level of engagement was not reflected in higher levels of self-reported emotion change. The implications for conducting therapy in this demographic group are discussed; these reflect cultural issues that apply for Chinese people in their own country as well as for immigrant groups.

ISBN: 9781392168301Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study.
LDR:04347nmm a2200325 4500 001 2209553
005 20191105130508.5
008 201008s2019 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781392168301
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI13807116
035 $a (MiAaPQ)adel:10005
035 $a AAI13807116
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Nan, Hui-mei. $3 3436641
245 1 0 $a Emotional Disclosure in Chinese Speakers: A Psychotherapy Analogue Study.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2019
300 $a 167 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: B.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Bucci, Wilma.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelphi University, 2019.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a Psychotherapy relies heavily on verbal interaction to bring about emotional changes that can reduce suffering and enable individuals to live more satisfying lives. Telling personal stories, which are rich in vivid details, allows the listener to feel what the speaker feels, and helps the speaker to understand their experience in the moment, and to think about where they are heading in the future. Research indicates that emotional disclosure, appropriately used, may be beneficial to people's physical and mental health, and an important element in therapeutic change.Chinese culture is known to discourage direct expression of strong emotions. On the one hand, Chinese Americans underutilize mental health service. On the other hand, in Chinese societies, the exposure to Western culture and the disruption of the healing tradition has led to intense need for psychological services and training. The application of psychotherapy in Chinese populations, with a different language and different cultural associations, is a great challenge with little research conducted as yet. The current study, designed as a partial analogue of psychotherapy, aimed to investigate the linguistic features and emotional effects when Chinese speakers were engaged in disclosing emotional and personal memories.In interviews collected for a previous study, Nan (2011), 34 participants (18 males and 16 females) from a non-clinical sample of Chinese speakers living in New York were asked to tell an early memory and a recent emotionally powerful event. During the interview, conducted in their native language, the participants were also asked to rate the emotional intensity felt and to characterize the emotions at three time points: when the event happened (Time 1), before telling (Time 2) and after telling the memories (Time 3). The language style of the narratives was scored for referential activity (RA), a measure of the concreteness, specificity, clarity and imagery of language, and the relationship between RA and change in emotional intensity and characterization was evaluated. The RA of the narratives in this sample was also compared to the RA of narratives from Asian American and general American samples (Welsh, 2009; King, 2011).As predicted, Chinese speakers obtained higher levels of RA in the early memory than recent memory narratives as has been shown in other populations (Welsh, 2009, Murphy, 2012). Contrary to prediction, Chinese women and men displayed an equivalent level of engagement (measured by RA) when telling early memories and no significant relationship between emotion change and RA was found. In comparison to the other two American born samples, the Chinese speaking sample had the lowest level of emotion change after describing an early memory. Both Asian samples showed significantly lower levels of emotion change than the American community samples. While Chinese speakers were more engaged (measured by RA) in telling their early memories than recent memories, this higher level of engagement was not reflected in higher levels of self-reported emotion change. The implications for conducting therapy in this demographic group are discussed; these reflect cultural issues that apply for Chinese people in their own country as well as for immigrant groups.
590 $a School code: 0001.
650 4 $a Asian Studies. $3 1669375
650 4 $a Clinical psychology. $3 524863
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0622
710 2 $a Adelphi University. $b Psychological Studies. $3 3436642
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 80-12B.
790 $a 0001
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2019
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13807116