Table 2.

Correlations between ERQ subscales and affect across samples from different backgrounds.

	Cognitive reappraisal				Expressive suppression
	US	UK	China	Brazil	US	UK	China	Brazil
Positive affect	0.42*	0.24	0.13	0.37*	−0.33*	−0.33*	−0.01	0.04
Negative affect	−0.51*	−0.27*	−0.34*	−0.34*	0.39*	−0.08	0.09	−0.12

US sample results stem from Gross and John (2003). Results for the UK and China are based on the cultural subgroups of the sample of the present study. Brazilian sample results stem from Batistoni et al. (2013) ERQ, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003).

^*p <0.05.