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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