Epidemiological studies consistently reveal lower prevalence rates of affective disorder in people from East Asian cultures compared with those from Western cultures. Reasons for these differences have been the focus of continued debate, and they remain particularly curious given that people from East Asian cultures also tend to report higher levels of negative emotion compared with those from Western cultures. In the current article, we take this apparent paradox as a starting point, and examine reasons why negative emotion may be less strongly related to affective disorders in Eastern compared with Western cultures. Drawing from research identifying cultural differences in cognitive style (Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001), we suggest that systems of thought characteristic of Eastern cultures provide a foundation from which people are able to develop better skills for managing negative emotion.¹

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探索情感障碍患病率的东西方鸿沟：应对负性情绪的文化差异的案例

流行病学研究始终显示，与来自西方文化的人群相比，来自东亚文化的人群的情感障碍患病率较低。这些差异的原因一直是持续辩论的焦点，并且鉴于来自东亚文化的人们也倾向于比来自西方文化的人们报告更高的负面情绪，因此它们仍然特别令人好奇。在当前的文章中，我们以这种明显的悖论为起点，并研究了与西方文化相比，东方人的负面情绪与情感障碍的联系可能较弱的原因。通过研究确定认知风格中的文化差异的研究（Nisbett，Peng，Choi和Norenzayan，2001年），^1个