한국인의 긍정적 정서

• 영문명: Positive Emotional Characteristics of Koreans
• 발행기관: 서울대학교 심리과학연구소
• 저자명: 이훈구(Hoon Koo lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『심리과학』제6권 제2호, 45~60쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 심리학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1997.12.01

국문 초록

먼저 긍정적 정서란 무엇인가에 관해 검토하였다. 가장 보편적이고 측정가능한 정의는 행복과 기쁨이란 것이 밝혀졌다. 행복은 인지적 측면의 긍정적 정서인 반면 기쁨은 정서적 측면의 긍정적 정서이다. 정서를 교차문화적으로 연구할 때 어떤 방식으로 취하는 것이 좋은가를 검토한 결과 정서를 하나의 스크립트(script)로 간주하는 것이 마땅하다고 판단되었다. 한국인의 긍정적 정서에 관한 국내연구와 국제연구를 찾아보았는데 주로 주관적 안녕(인지적 측면의 긍정적 정서)에 관한 연구에 집중되어 있음을 발견했다. 앞으로 긍정적 정서의 종류와 그 내용을 보다 더 확대하고 그에 관한 한국적 연구를 수행할 필요가 있음을 역설하였다.

영문 초록

Before discussing about the characteristics of Korean people's experiences of positive emotions, the present paper reviewed the definition of positive emotion reported by the scholars of relevant fields. It was found that little agreement has been made among scholars regarding the definition of positive, emotions. However, no scholar denies mat happiness and pleasantness are the most common factors of positive emotions. The difference between happiness and pleasantness lies in strength of emotion. In general, it is believed that happiness includes tepid and contentment, whereas pleasantness passionate joy and ecstacy. The present paper focused on the two types of happiness. One is cognitive and the other emotional. Cognitive happiness represents the satisfaction of various sections of lives reported by subjects. This kind of happiness is cognitive because subject evaluate their happiness through cognitive appraisal and judgement. In contrast, emotional happiness is measured by the subject's emotional reports experienced during the part several weeks. Next, the paper discussed about the fundamental issues in cross cultural studies on emotion such as whether cultures share same positive emotional prototypes or they experience different nature of positive emotions, and whether antecedents as well as consequences of positive emotions are different or not. It was suggested in this paper that cross cultural emotional studies had to deal with emotions as emotional script rather than just fractions of emotion experiences. Finally, the paper reviewed the previous researches on subjective wellbeing or happiness of Koreans studied in domestically and internationally. It was found that the level of happiness of Koreans was at intermediate level among people in many countries and the most important determinants of happiness among Koreans were satisfaction of psychological needs including satisfaction in family life, job and self realization, whereas the sociodemographic characteristics such as age, education and income did contribute to the happiness but with less.

목차

1. 긍정적 정서란 무엇인가?

가. 행복과 기쁨

나. 행복이론

2. 정서의 교차문화적 비교

3. 한국인의 주관적 안녕

가. 한국인의 주관적 안녕수준

나. 주관적 안녕의 결정요인

맺는 말

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