Another study reported that in Eastern culture, adjustment situations (in which an individual has adjusted himself or herself to surrounding people, events, or objects) are more common than control situations (in which an individual has influenced or surrounding people, events, or objects according to his changed the or her own wishes) are more common than control situations, but in Western culture, the latter are more common than the former . Controlling strategies may relate well with practices and meanings rooted in the notion of the self as independent (i.e., in Western society); adjusting strategies relate well with practices and meanings grounded in the notion of the self as interdependent (i.e., in Eastern society). Therefore, the nature of birthing experience may differ in two different cultural contexts.