Major Gender Differences In Expressing Emotion
Salma Mohamed Hussein Saleh
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Highlighting major differences in gender emotional expressiveness
Clearly, males and females feel the same emotions, except they express them differently. Specialists have conducted many researches to investigate the dissimilarities between males and females in the expression of their emotions and how they have diverse reactions in the same situation. Also, the effect society and gender stereotypes have on the way they release these emotions. In what way signs of such differences start showing from stages as early as childhood. As well as the conception that boys are more hostile and girls tending to be more emotionally expressive and how their relationship with their parents plays a huge role in how they express themselves
Even though boys are more emotional than girls, they tend to be more hostile because of their inability to express their emotions in a healthy way. Since it is deemed socially unacceptable or “feminine” for them to be emotionally expressive. The pressure to be masculine begins in stages as early as preschool, they start viewing anger as the only socially acceptable emotion to be displayed. In the words of researcher Chu, “When their parents drop them off, they want to be close and to be held, but not in front of other people. Even as early as 4, they’re already aware of those masculine stereotypes and are negotiating their way around them.” (kantrowitz and kalb, 1998)
On the other hand, emotions such as cheerfulness, grief and distress are trusted to be a trait of girls as they incline to be extra emotionally expressive. (Parkins, 2012) stated that women make additional use of emotional expression markers than men do, to aid exhibit their emotions online. The fact that women employ punctuation markers such as exclamation marks and question marks and capital letters very often to express affirmative emotions, which is a product of their concern about how they are perceived and the
144839
Highlighting major differences in gender emotional expressiveness
Clearly, males and females feel the same emotions, except they express them differently. Specialists have conducted many researches to investigate the dissimilarities between males and females in the expression of their emotions and how they have diverse reactions in the same situation. Also, the effect society and gender stereotypes have on the way they release these emotions. In what way signs of such differences start showing from stages as early as childhood. As well as the conception that boys are more hostile and girls tending to be more emotionally expressive and how their relationship with their parents plays a huge role in how they express themselves
Even though boys are more emotional than girls, they tend to be more hostile because of their inability to express their emotions in a healthy way. Since it is deemed socially unacceptable or “feminine” for them to be emotionally expressive. The pressure to be masculine begins in stages as early as preschool, they start viewing anger as the only socially acceptable emotion to be displayed. In the words of researcher Chu, “When their parents drop them off, they want to be close and to be held, but not in front of other people. Even as early as 4, they’re already aware of those masculine stereotypes and are negotiating their way around them.” (kantrowitz and kalb, 1998)
On the other hand, emotions such as cheerfulness, grief and distress are trusted to be a trait of girls as they incline to be extra emotionally expressive. (Parkins, 2012) stated that women make additional use of emotional expression markers than men do, to aid exhibit their emotions online. The fact that women employ punctuation markers such as exclamation marks and question marks and capital letters very often to express affirmative emotions, which is a product of their concern about how they are perceived and the
References: (Parkins, 2012) “Gender and Emotional Expressiveness: An Analysis of Prosodic Fatures in Emotional Expression” (Kantrowitz and Kalb, 1998) “Boys Will Be Boys”