Emotional Expression at Work and at Home: Domain, Status, or Individual Characteristics?

Autor/inn/en	Lively, Kathryn J.; Powell, Brian
Titel	Emotional Expression at Work and at Home: Domain, Status, or Individual Characteristics?
Quelle	In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 69 (2006) 1, S.17-38 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2725
DOI	10.1177/019027250606900103
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Individual Characteristics; Interaction; Work Environment; Family Environment; Psychological Patterns; Cultural Context; Social Psychology; Affective Measures; General Social Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Interaktion; Arbeitsmilieu; Familienmilieu; Sozialpsychologie
Abstract	Using the emotions module of the 1996 General Social Survey, we examine strategies that individuals use to express emotion. We focus on anger, one of the emotions most problematic or potentially disruptive to human interaction. Relying on insights from three theoretical approaches to emotion--the cultural perspective, the structural perspective, and affect control theory--we explore not only whether the expression of anger is affected by the social domain in which anger occurs (home or work) and the status difference between the individual experiencing anger and the actor triggering the emotion, but also the degree to which these effects are independent of individual characteristics such as gender, race, and education. Analyses indicate that social domain and status differences are such powerful predictors of emotional expression that they eclipse the influence of other individual characteristics, most notably the gender of both the individual and the target of the anger. Moreover, the status mechanism governing emotional expression does not vary across work and family settings. This study supplements previous research by disentangling the relative effects of domain, relative status, and individual characteristics. It also suggests that a more complementary approach, which integrates different theoretical paradigms, may be necessary for a fuller appreciation of the social constraints governing emotional expression. (Contains 9 tables and 25 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10