PDF Ebook Ethnic and Gender Differences in Emotional Experience and Expression
How universal are the emotions that men and women from a variety of cultural and ethnic groups experience and express in their close love relationships? in this study, 144 men and 307 women of Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, and Japanese ancestry were asked about their ideologies as to how people ought to deal with strong emotions in their close relationships, how often they themselves feU a variety of emotions, and how they dealt with such feelings. Finally, they were asked how satisfied they were with their close relationships.
Men and women, regardles of ethnic group, seemed to possess different emotional ideologies. Women tended to favor direct expression of emotion; men favored emotional management. Men and women experienced much the same emotions in their relationships, but men were more muted in their expression of feelings. There was no evidence that existing differences had an impact on men and women's relationship satisfaction, however.
Ethnic groups did differ in emotional ideology, the extent to which they experienced a variety of emotions in their close relationships, and the way they dealt with strong emotions. Again, there was no evidence that such differences effected relationship satisfaction, however.
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PDF Ebook Ethnic and Gender Differences in Emotional Experience and Expression
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