Gender differences in emotion expression in children: A meta-analytic review.
The Ohio State University · Yale University
Abstract
Emotion expression is an important feature of healthy child development that has been found to show gender differences. However, there has been no empirical review of the literature on gender and facial, vocal, and behavioral expressions of different types of emotions in children. The present study constitutes a comprehensive meta-analytic review of gender differences and moderators of differences in emotion expression from infancy through adolescence. We analyzed 555 effect sizes from 166 studies with a total of 21,709 participants. Significant but very small gender differences were found overall, with girls showing more positive emotions (g = -.08) and internalizing emotions (e.g., sadness, anxiety,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 24.23
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 309
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2Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Expression (computer science)
- Meta-analysis
- Developmental psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Medicine
- Internal medicine