ADOLESCENCE AND MANIFESTATION EMOTIONS IN THE FAMILY

Abstract

We have studied the expressiveness of the family in connection with expressing real emotions. We are interested in gender differences in positive and negative emotional expressiveness of adolescents. The research sample consists of high school students (N = 110, M = 46, F = 64, AM 19.3). We have used the Family Environment Scale (Hargašová, Kollárik, 1986), the scale of expressivity (Barchard, 2001). We have found that the low family expressiveness is associated with emotional expression outside the family, which means the lower degree of expressiveness in the family, the higher level of negative expressivity in an individual. Gender differences have shown that women perceive the possibility of expressing their emotion in the family more positive than men, but men reached a higher score for expressing emotions.