Tenenbaum, Harriet R., Ford, Sarah and Alkhedairy, Betul (2011) Telling stories: gender differences in peers' emotion talk and communication style. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(4), pp. 707-721. ISSN (print) 0261-510X
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Eighty girls and 64 boys (M= 6 years; 8 months, SD= .65) narrated a wordless picture book in mixed- or same-gender dyads. In mixed-gender as well as same-gender dyads, girls used more emotion explanations than did boys. Combined across dyad type, girls used more emotion labels than did boys. Girls used a higher proportion of collaborative speech acts than did boys in same-gender dyads, but girls and boys used the same amount in mixed-gender dyads. Whereas girls used a higher proportion of informing acts in mixed-gender dyads than did boys, boys used more than did girls in same-gender dyads. The findings support contextual models of gender and suggest that speaker as well as partner gender influence emotion expression and conversational style.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | affective social competence, sex-differences, child conversations, young-children, feeling states, past emotions, low-income, behavior, age, narratives |
| Research Area: | Allied health professions and studies |
| Faculty, School or Research Centre: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Automatic Import Agent |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2011 12:59 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2011 16:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/17899 |
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