Amae: an emotion to understand the japanese psyche
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-7125.i44p39-50Keywords:
Amae, Japan, Psychology, Emotion, InterdependenceAbstract
This article’s main goal is to present an overview of the Japanese concept of amae from a Cultural Psychology’s perspective. The scientific literature on the topic is presented and discussed, from the publication of the first book on the subject in the West in the 1970s, Takeo Doi’s “The Anatomy of Dependence”, to current cross-cultural research. The article begins with a brief presentation of cultural psychology and its importance, goes through a history of research on amae, discusses the possible cultural functions of amae, its influence within clinical psychology, the differences between amae and attachment, studies that investigated amae in cultures other than Japanese, and ends with a discussion on the concept.
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