Emotions and Everyday Life in Cuba

Dario Galati, Mayra Manzano, Miguel Roca, Igor Sotgiu and Omar Fassio
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Dario Galati: Laboratorio di Psicologia delle Emozioni, Università degli Studi do Torino
Mayra Manzano: Universidad de La Habana
Miguel Roca: Universidad de La Habana
Igor Sotgiu: Laboratorio di Psicologia delle Emozioni, Università degli Studi do Torino
Omar Fassio: Universidad de La Habana

Psychology and Developing Societies, 2004, vol. 16, issue 2, 139-157

Abstract: Investigates the quality of everyday emotional experience in Cuba, a cultural context profoundly different from those previously analysed. A questionnaire was completed by 153 students of Havana University (age 17–28 years). They were asked to report an emotion-eliciting episode that had happened to them and to answer some questions concerning the content of the episode, i.e., antecedent, contextual aspects, cognitive evaluations, reactions, and social sharing of the emotion. The results indicated that positive emotions accounted for about 50% of everyday emotional experience and were significantly associated with high intensity. The antecedents most frequently cited were of a relational type and involved family, partner, and friends. The results are discussed in the light of previous studies on emotion antecedents conducted in Europe and in the US. It is argued that the Cuban cultural context presents some interesting peculiarities, which may influence the presence of specific typologies of emotion and the quality of subjective everyday experience.

Date: 2004
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