The Social Sharing of Emotions (SSE) in the Dominican Republic’s Cultural Context: Autobiographical Descriptive Data

El Compartir Social de las Emociones (SSE) en el contexto cultural de República Dominicana: datos autobiográficos descriptivos maría t. muñoz-sastre

Nicole Cantisano (1) , Bernard Rimé , María Muñoz-Sastre

1 CERPPS - Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Psychopathologie et Psychologie de la Santé

The propensity to speak and share emotional experiences, denoted as the social sharing of emotions (SSE), has been thoroughly investigated, showing in different cultural settings that 80% to 95% of emotional experiences, negative or positive, are object of SSE. The present study's main objective was to obtain descriptive data concerning SSE in the Dominican culture. A total of 306 Dominican laypersons responded to a questionnaire which recollected autobiographical data aiming: to establish main SSE descriptive indicators (rate, recurrence and delay) and to identify social sharing targets in this cultural context. Findings corroborate previous studies concerning SSE global indicators. First, this Dominican sample is at comparable levels regarding sharing rates 92.48% of emotional episodes were socially shared. Secondly, 68.62% of participants reported having shared the emotional episode the same day it took place. Third, findings revealed that 72.55% of participants talked about the emotion-eliciting event several times. To conclude, the study's findings show that Dominican laypersons are at comparable levels as other populations when it comes to SSE indicators and that Dominicans' choice in social sharing targets, intimates, is compatible with numerous SSE studies (Rimé, 2009). r e s u m e N La propensión a hablar y compartir experiencias emocionales, denominados como el reparto social de las emociones (SSE), se ha investigado a fondo mostrando en diferentes entornos culturales que el 80% y el 95% de las expe-riencias emocionales, negativas o positivas, son objeto de la ESS. El objetivo principal de este trabajo fue obtener datos descriptivos relativos SSE en la cultura dominicana. Un total de 306 laicos dominicanos respondieron a un cuestionario autobiográficos que pretendía establecer principales indicadores descriptivos de la ESS (tasa, recurrencia y retardo) y para identificar objetivos sociales para compartir en este contexto cultural. Los hallazgos corroboran los estudios anteriores sobre indicadores globales de SSE. En primer lugar, esta muestra Dominicana se encuentra en niveles comparables con respecto a las tasas de participación en el 92,48% de los episodios emocionales fueron socialmente compartidos. En segundo lugar, 68.62% de los participantes in-doi:10.

Keywords: Cognition; Emotions; Social Sharing of Emotions; Dominican Republic

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Psychology

Nicole Cantisano, Bernard Rimé, María Muñoz-Sastre. El Compartir Social de las Emociones (SSE) en el contexto cultural de República Dominicana: datos autobiográficos descriptivos maría t. muñoz-sastre. Universitas Psychologica, 2014, 13 (2), pp.457 - 466. ⟨10.11144/Javeriana.UPSY13-2.ssed⟩. ⟨hal-02482244⟩