An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia
While culture and depression influence the way in which humans process emotion, these two areas of investigation are rarely combined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the difference in facial emotion recognition among Malaysian Malays and Australians with a European heritage with...
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| author | Mohan, Sindhu Nair Mukhtar, Firdaus Jobson, Laura |
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| description | While culture and depression influence the way in which humans process emotion, these two areas of investigation are rarely combined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the difference in facial emotion recognition among Malaysian Malays and Australians with a European heritage with and without depression. A total of 88 participants took part in this study (Malays n = 47, Australians n = 41). All participants were screened using The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Clinician Version (SCID-5-CV) to assess the Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) diagnosis and they also completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). This study consisted of the facial emotion recognition (FER) task whereby the participants were asked to look at facial images and determine the emotion depicted by each of the facial expressions. It was found that depression status and cultural group did not significantly influence overall FER accuracy. Malaysian participants without MDD and Australian participants with MDD performed quicker as compared to Australian participants without MDD on the FER task. Also, Malaysian participants more accurately recognized fear as compared to Australian participants. Future studies can focus on the extent of the influence and other aspects of culture and participant condition on facial emotion recognition. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-958522023-03-28T07:46:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95852/ An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia Mohan, Sindhu Nair Mukhtar, Firdaus Jobson, Laura While culture and depression influence the way in which humans process emotion, these two areas of investigation are rarely combined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the difference in facial emotion recognition among Malaysian Malays and Australians with a European heritage with and without depression. A total of 88 participants took part in this study (Malays n = 47, Australians n = 41). All participants were screened using The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Clinician Version (SCID-5-CV) to assess the Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) diagnosis and they also completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). This study consisted of the facial emotion recognition (FER) task whereby the participants were asked to look at facial images and determine the emotion depicted by each of the facial expressions. It was found that depression status and cultural group did not significantly influence overall FER accuracy. Malaysian participants without MDD and Australian participants with MDD performed quicker as compared to Australian participants without MDD on the FER task. Also, Malaysian participants more accurately recognized fear as compared to Australian participants. Future studies can focus on the extent of the influence and other aspects of culture and participant condition on facial emotion recognition. Frontiers Media 2021 Article PeerReviewed Mohan, Sindhu Nair and Mukhtar, Firdaus and Jobson, Laura (2021) An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1664-0640 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.622077/full 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.622077 |
| spellingShingle | Mohan, Sindhu Nair Mukhtar, Firdaus Jobson, Laura An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title | An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title_full | An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title_fullStr | An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title_short | An exploratory study on cross-cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from Malaysia and Australia |
| title_sort | exploratory study on cross cultural differences in facial emotion recognition between adults from malaysia and australia |
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