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- Title
THE VERBAL EXPRESSION OF LOVE BY WOMEN AND MEN AS A CRITICAL COMMUNICATION EVENT IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
- Authors
Owen, William Foster
- Abstract
This article presents a study, which assessed the role of the expression of an emotion as a critical event that has an impact on relational trajectories. Thus, the overall expressiveness of males and females was tangential, although the folk linguistics of women and men's different "voices" has proven to be an interesting related issue. For example, Shimanoff reported that males did not differ significantly in their overall references to emotions in naturalistic conversations. In extending her investigation to an assessment of gender differences in emotional expressiveness between married couples, Shimanoff discovered few differences in emotional disclosures of husbands and wives and therefore called into question the validity of the stereotypes that females are more expressive of emotions that males. This study adds to Shimanoff's claim in that not only is the prevailing stereotype of female emotional expressiveness relatively unsupported, but dating males appear to be more expressive than dating females.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; LOVE; ATTACHMENT behavior; SEX differences (Biology); GENDER role; SPOUSES' legal relationship; DOMESTIC relations
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 1987, Vol 10, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.1987.11089701