A Study on Underlying Motivation of Emotional Suppression in Immigrants and Mainstreamers in the Netherlands

Single Wave Study

General Information

Title

Abstract

In August 2013, the questionnaire “not showing emotions” was fielded in the LISS-I panel.

The study is partly qualitative and explorative and as such it contributes to the scarce literature on interethnic differences in underlying motives of suppression of negative emotions and its relationship to background variables and the outcomes (the consequences of emotional suppression and successfulness of emotional suppression).

Longitudinal Type

Single Wave Study

Begin date

05-08-2013

End date

27-08-2013

Topics

Psychology (LISS/ELSST)

Researcher

Snezana Stupar, Fons van de Vijver

Publisher

CentERdata

Funding Organization

CentERdata/MESS Project
Cross-Cultural Psychology at Tilburg University
Statistics Netherlands (CBS)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-259-rt6d

Datasets and documentation

View Documentation

Codebook in English

codebook_jm13a_1.0_EN.pdf

Codebook in Dutch

codeboek_jm13a_1.0_NL.pdf

Data Files

English SPSS file

jm13a_EN_1.0p.sav

English STATA file

jm13a_EN_1.0p.dta

Variables

Variable name	Variable Label	Variable Type
nomem_encr	Number of the household member encrypted	preloaded
jm13a_m	Year and month of the field work period	constructed
jm13a001	Describe the situation that evoked your negative emotion(s) in your own words below:	directly measured
jm13a002	How important was this situation for you?	directly measured
jm13a003	What emotion did you feel most in this situation? Describe only the strongest emotion.	directly measured
jm13a004	What did you do so that others would not notice your emotion(s) in this situation? If you have tried this in several ways, please describe each way separately.	directly measured
jm13a005	What did you do so that others would not notice your emotion(s) in this situation? If you have tried this in several ways, please describe each way separately.	directly measured
jm13a006	What did you do so that others would not notice your emotion(s) in this situation? If you have tried this in several ways, please describe each way separately.	directly measured
jm13a007	Why didn’t you want others to notice what you felt?	directly measured
jm13a008	To what extent did you succeed in hiding your emotion(s)? Please elaborate.	directly measured
jm13a009	How easy or difficult was it for you to suppress your emotion(s)?	directly measured
jm13a010	What were the positive and/or negative consequences of what you did for you and your surroundings? Please elaborate.	directly measured
jm13a011	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: angry	directly measured
jm13a012	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: sad	directly measured
jm13a013	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: nervous	directly measured
jm13a014	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: down	directly measured
jm13a015	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: ashamed	directly measured
jm13a016	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: anxious	directly measured
jm13a017	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: full of hate	directly measured
jm13a018	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: pitiful	directly measured
jm13a019	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: humiliated	directly measured
jm13a020	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: hurt	directly measured
jm13a021	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: worried	directly measured
jm13a022	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: guilty	directly measured
jm13a023	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: compassionate	directly measured
jm13a024	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: irritated	directly measured
jm13a025	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: restless	directly measured
jm13a026	To what extent did you feel the following emotions in the situation you described: startled	directly measured
jm13a027	What other emotion did you also feel during the described situation? You can also leave this question unanswered.	directly measured
jm13a028	To what extent did you feel [answer given at jm13a027] during the described situation?	directly measured
jm13a029	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want others to know too much about me.	directly measured
jm13a030	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to come across as weak.	directly measured
jm13a031	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to make someone else feel even worse.	directly measured
jm13a032	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to embarrass myself.	directly measured
jm13a033	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to keep the situation under control.	directly measured
jm13a034	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I was afraid to worsen my relationship with someone else.	directly measured
jm13a035	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to protect myself.	directly measured
jm13a036	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want others to laugh at me.	directly measured
jm13a037	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... it was the easiest way for me to get rid off the negative emotion(s).	directly measured
jm13a038	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... my emotion(s) could be threatening for others.	directly measured
jm13a039	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to please someone else.	directly measured
jm13a040	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I was afraid the situation would worsen otherwise.	directly measured
jm13a041	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to give the others access to my personal world.	directly measured
jm13a042	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... it was not appropriate to express my emotion(s).	directly measured
jm13a043	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I was afraid to lose control over my emotion(s) if I was going to express it.	directly measured
jm13a044	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to let myself be hurt even more.	directly measured
jm13a045	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted someone else to feel better.	directly measured
jm13a046	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not feel safe.	directly measured
jm13a047	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to hurt someone else with my emotion(s).	directly measured
jm13a048	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I was afraid that the situation would escalate.	directly measured
jm13a049	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I felt the others had nothing to do with how I felt.	directly measured
jm13a050	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... others would disapprove what I felt.	directly measured
jm13a051	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to protect someone else.	directly measured
jm13a052	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to lose regard (honor/respect).	directly measured
jm13a053	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to feel better.	directly measured
jm13a054	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I did not want to embarrass someone else with my emotion(s).	directly measured
jm13a055	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... I wanted to protect my privacy.	directly measured
jm13a056	During the described situation I suppressed my negative emotion(s), because... others would find my emotion(s) odd in that situation.	directly measured
jm13a057	Was it difficult to answer the questions?	directly measured
jm13a058	Were the questions sufficiently clear?	directly measured
jm13a059	Did the questionnaire get you thinking about things?	directly measured
jm13a060	Was it an interesting subject?	directly measured
jm13a061	Did you enjoy answering the questions?	directly measured
jm13a062	Starting date questionnaire	constructed
jm13a063	Starting time questionnaire	constructed
jm13a064	End date questionnaire	constructed
jm13a065	End time questionnaire	constructed
jm13a066	Duration in seconds	derived

Questions

Questionnaire: A Study on Underlying Motivation of Emotional Suppression

The questionnaire was administered in Dutch.

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Response Information

Response Overview

Selected number of household members: 1,848 (100%)
Non-response: 580 (31.4%)
Response: 1,268 (68.6%)
Complete: 1,236 (66.9%)
Incomplete: 32 (1.7%)

Collection Events

Period

05-08-2013 to 27-08-2013

Sample

panel members of 16 years and older

Collection Mode

internet survey

Fieldwork Note

A reminder was sent twice to non-respondents.

Publications

Immigrants Regulate Emotions in the Same Way as Majority Members in The Netherlands ; Stupar, S.

Family characteristics and entrepreneurship among immigrants in the Netherlands Master thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics; Grigorian, A.A.

Self- and other-oriented motivations associated with emotional suppression of internalized and externalized negative emotions: A multiethnic self-report study in the Netherlands In C. Roland-Lévy, P. Denoux, B. Voyer, P. Boski & W. K. Gabrenya Jr. (Eds.), Unity, diversity and culture: Research and scholarship selected from the 22nd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 439-445). ; Stupar-Rutenfrans, S., et al.