Communication and Emotions – Emotional Expressiveness or Emotional Restraint?  

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Strumska-Cylwik, Longina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Arts and Sciences vol. 06 no. 02 (2013), page 331-350.
Topik: Communication; Emotions; Expressiveness; Restraint; Suppression
Fulltext: 06_02_25_Strumska-Cylwik.pdf (565.55KB)

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The main aim of this paper is to search for different ways people think about their own emotionality and about experienced and manifested emotions that have a substantial influence on the shape and quality of their lives. I am also attempting to outline the connection between expressiveness and emotional restraint, and between intercommunication and its quality. At the same time, I am trying to find the answer to the question about what is conducive to unconstrained expression of emotions by humans, and what makes it difficult for them, leading to restrained manifestation of emotions. In my research, I am paying attention to the cultural, individual, as well as innate (common to the whole mankind) nature of emotions – the nature which determines specific ways of experiencing and manifesting emotions, and at the same time letting people, to a lesser or a larger degree, expose their emotions freely. It traces into differences between expressive (emotional) cultures (that give people much more liberty to manifest emotions they experience) and restrained cultures (that require control of emotions) with the latter blocking all ways of expressing emotions. I assume that rationally manifested emotions release passion, activate people to action, conduce to healthy and honest relations with others. Thanks to proper expression of emotions, a man can not only experience them better, but he can also feel healthier and safer, since he/she lives his/her life to the full and experiences joy and sadness entirely. That is why people can create fruitful and more authentic relations with others. On the other hand, restraining emotions and lack of opportunities to manifest them can lead to blockage of communication with one’s own consciousness and at the same time can release fear and sense of uncertainty of self-esteem and can complicate relations with other people. As a result, emotions can be repressed or denied, which can lead to a series of negative consequences, manifested on an individual, as well as social level. My research has focused, first and foremost, on searching for various types of thinking about emotionality and ways of dealing with emotions, which can be reflected in following questions: What does it mean to be an emotional person? What ways of manifesting emotionality are you familiar with? (what behaviors accompany it? When is it manifested?), Do you consider yourself an emotional person? In what ways does emotionality influence your condition, frame of mind, relations with others and mutual communication? Do you think that emotions you express (such as joy, distress, fear, anger, shame) can and should be manifested freely in presence of other people, or should they rather be hidden from others? In your opinion, are there emotions or feelings which are right or wrong; can or cannot, should or should not be manifested in presence of other people?, etc.

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