Psychosocial variables in the prototypical knowledge of emotions

Abstract:

This article presents a study on Emotional Prototypes related to the level of social relationships and sex of subjects. The sample was composed of 110 adults —Basque Country resident non— students. Lay conceptions of anger, sadness and joy were inferred from narratives of emotional episodes. The prototypicality and free recall ratings, of features were related to sex (women have more emotional expressiveness and greater sensitivity to internal emotional events and to external social antecedents and effects of emotion) and to density of social relationships (subjects with a high number of roles mowed greater recall and prototypicality of social antecedents, of ways of handling emotions, and had a richer experience of emotion). Subjective and objective social support also influences the social knowledge of emotion. Emotional scripts were exacted with a correspondence factor analysis and the factor total scores have significative associations with sex and social relationship variables-particularly with subjective social support. We concluded that the number of roles, objetive and subjective social support, and sex affect the content and structure of people's emotion prototypes and scripts. © 1991 by Aprendizaje.

Año de publicación:

1991

Keywords:

• Emotional prototypes

Fuente:

scopus