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Differences in Expressiveness: Gender, Interpersonal Orientation, and Perceived Parental Expressiveness as Contributing Factors

1977; Wiley; Volume: 39; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/351068

1741-3737

Jack O. Balswick, Christine Proctor Avertt,

Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

An examination of relevant literature reveals that females are sex-role stereotyped as being more expressive than males. It was hypothesized that although females would be more expressive than males, this difference could be explained by two variablesperceived parental expressiveness and interpersonal orientation. The findings, based upon responses to questionnaires from a sample of 523 college students, indicate that females are more expressive of love, happiness, and sadness than males. Based upon second-order partial gammas, gender is found to have a strong relationship with expressiveness, independent of perceived parental expressiveness and interpersonal orientation. Although parental expressiveness was found to have a strong, independent effect upon expressiveness, the relationship between interpersonal orientation and expressiveness is found to be spurious.