Historical and Cultural context affecting of emotion regulation in Iranian society: A qualitative study

Hatamian, Peyman; Tabatabaei, Kazem; Azadfallah, Parviz; Hasani, Jafar

doi:10.30487/jcp.2023.320041.1353

Historical and Cultural context affecting of emotion regulation in Iranian society: A qualitative study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Peyman Hatamian ¹

Kazem Tabatabaei ²

Parviz Azadfallah ³

jafar hasani ⁴

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Tarbiat modares

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and education, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

10.30487/jcp.2023.320041.1353

Abstract

Since the concept of mental health is very much related to culture and is affected by it, also Cultural practices and beliefs may influence coping with psychological distress and sometimes assist to cope with mental disorder. On the other hand these cultural factors can be the source of distress and conflict and underlie the mental disorders, therefore the present study done aims to the role of historical and cultural context affecting of emotion regulation in Iranian society. The present study was Inductive qualitative content analysis and latent analysis method. Target community includes specialists and experts emotion regulation in Iran was by purposeful sampling to saturation with 11 experts, a semi-structured interview was conducted. qualitative analysis of the findings leads to the extraction of three main categories such as: a) Ethnicities and the role of language (subcultures), B) The role of myths and stories, J) Intergenerational differences, as well as six sub-floors. The results showed that components related to historical and cultural contexts such as ethnicity, Myths and stories also, intergenerational differences affect the people emotion regulation.

Keywords

Historical context

Emotion regulation

Iranian

cultural

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