Good Feelings in Christianity and Buddhism : Religious Differences in Ideal Affect  

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Tsai, Jeanne L. ; Miao, Felicity F. ; Seppala, Emma

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 33 no. 03 (2007), page 409-421.
Topik: RELIGION; religion; emotion; culture; christianity; buddhism
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Affect valuation theory (AVT) predicts cultural variation in the affective states that people ideally want to feel (i. e., "ideal affect"). National and ethnic comparisons support this prediction : For instance, European Americans (EA) value high arousal positive (HAP) states (e. g., excitement) more and low arousal positive (LAP) states (e. g., calm) less than Hong Kong Chinese. In this article, the authors examine whether religions differ in the ideal affective states they endorse. The authors predicted that Christianity values HAP more and LAP less than Buddhism. In Study 1, they compared Christian and Buddhist practitioners' ideal affect. In Studies 2 and 3, they compared the endorsement of HAP and LAP in Christian and Buddhist classical texts (e. g., Gospels, Lotus Sutra) and contemporary self - help books (e. g., Your Best Life Now, Art of Happiness). Findings supported predictions, suggesting that AVT applies to religious and to national and ethnic cultures.

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