IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/psydev/v16y2004i2p139-157.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Emotions and Everyday Life in Cuba

Author

Listed:
  • 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)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Dario Galati & Mayra Manzano & Miguel Roca & Igor Sotgiu & Omar Fassio, 2004. "Emotions and Everyday Life in Cuba," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 16(2), pages 139-157, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:16:y:2004:i:2:p:139-157
    DOI: 10.1177/097133360401600204
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097133360401600204
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097133360401600204?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Federica Caffaro & Dario Galati & María Victoria Zardoya Loureda & Michele Roccato, 2019. "Housing-Related Subjective Well-Being in Turin (Italy) and Havana (Cuba): Dimensions and Prediction," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 14(1), pages 273-285, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:16:y:2004:i:2:p:139-157. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.