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Comparative Study

| Published: June 25, 2016

Culture and Emotional Development

Prabhakararao Sampathirao

Central Health Education Bureau (CHEB) Kotla Road, New Delhi Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.039/20160303

DOI: 10.25215/0303.039

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Emotions can be biologically born, but socio-culturally nurtured. Emotions are more than our personal reactions their antecedents. They play important social and political roles and are fundamental to identity and community attachments rather than simple biological bases. Suppression of emotions affects mental health. Emotions are formed and structured within particular social and cultural environment. The cultural organization of emotion development implied here is related to the prevailing cultural model of self-construal—the independent or the interdependent self.

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Prabhakararao Sampathirao @ kittur4u@yahoo.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.039/20160303

10.25215/0303.039

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Published in   Volume 03, Issue 3, April-June, 2016