Which Emotion is Preferred by Indonesian People?

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Positive emotion, negative emotion, javanese, non-javanese

Abstract

Emotions are part of being human. One of the prime reasons that emotion has likely evolved is to monitor and negotiate our social relations. An emotion can be defined as subjective feelings. Emotions have two types. Positive emotion and negative emotion. The aim of this research was to describe positive and negative emotion based on culture. This was a cross sectional study. The technique of sampling used is accidental sampling. The subjects in this research were 145 Javanesse students and 52 non-Javanesse students of Psychology Faculty University of Muhammadiyah Malang. The research was conducted using Positive Activation Schedule (PANAS). The results showed that the javanese people have no preference on positive or negative emotion. While, non-javanese people have low preference on positive emotion (59,6%), and high preference on negative emotion (57,7%).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Alifah Nabilah Masturah
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TI  - Which Emotion is Preferred by Indonesian People?
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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