TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion Norms in Media
T2 - Acculturation in Hispanic Children’s Storybooks Compared to Heritage and Mainstream Cultures
AU - Sanders, Victoria R.
AU - Friedlmeier, Wolfgang
AU - Sanchez Gonzalez, Mayra L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the Modified Student Summer Scholars (MS3) program on behalf of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (OURS) of Grand Valley State University.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Cultural artifacts such as children’s storybooks may serve to facilitate learning of emotion display norms. We compared emotion displays in European American and Mexican books to infer cultural differences between the mainstream and a heritage culture to ultimately explore acculturation orientation in Hispanic storybooks. Totally, 1,059 images were coded from 10 popular storybooks from each cultural group. We focused on emotion type (positive, negative socially engaging, and disengaging) and intensity of expression. Context variables such as social partners and gender were also compared. Positive emotions were dominant in all groups, occurring most in Hispanic storybooks; Mexican and Hispanic storybooks displayed negative socially disengaging emotions less than negative socially engaging emotions. Hispanic storybooks displayed lowest intensity of expression, especially for female characters. Results indicated that Hispanic storybooks showed similarities to the mainstream culture in general features and similarities to the heritage culture in emotion-type display. However, some emotion norms deviated from both groups, indicating minority effects of Hispanic culture.
AB - Cultural artifacts such as children’s storybooks may serve to facilitate learning of emotion display norms. We compared emotion displays in European American and Mexican books to infer cultural differences between the mainstream and a heritage culture to ultimately explore acculturation orientation in Hispanic storybooks. Totally, 1,059 images were coded from 10 popular storybooks from each cultural group. We focused on emotion type (positive, negative socially engaging, and disengaging) and intensity of expression. Context variables such as social partners and gender were also compared. Positive emotions were dominant in all groups, occurring most in Hispanic storybooks; Mexican and Hispanic storybooks displayed negative socially disengaging emotions less than negative socially engaging emotions. Hispanic storybooks displayed lowest intensity of expression, especially for female characters. Results indicated that Hispanic storybooks showed similarities to the mainstream culture in general features and similarities to the heritage culture in emotion-type display. However, some emotion norms deviated from both groups, indicating minority effects of Hispanic culture.
KW - acculturation
KW - children’s storybooks
KW - cross-cultural comparison
KW - emotion expression
KW - emotion norms
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U2 - 10.1177/2158244018788607
DO - 10.1177/2158244018788607
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054512922
SN - 2158-2440
VL - 8
JO - SAGE Open
JF - SAGE Open
IS - 3
ER -