The Effect of Emotional Display Rules, on Intimate Relationships
Barbara Feliciano
Columbia College
Abstract
As we discussed different topics in this class, a specific one I wanted to research further was, Display rules. The purpose of my research is to discover whether an individual’s display rules, plays a role on their intimate relationships. Although we may have similar display rules, they will all vary depending on our upbringing. The research used for my study will be, Archival research, using the Stafford Library Ebsco Host resources. I found that display rules can effect intimate relationships in many ways such as, the way couples show affection to each other, as well as how they are able to communicate, and their relationship …show more content…
. Cultural meanings produce differences in the nature of relationships across cultures, which recruit different display rules to affect the regulation of emotional expressions in those relationships (Hwang. 2012). A main reason differences in emotional expressions exist may be because of cultural display rules. Hwang study focuses on the, perceived relationship commitment, which is, the motivation to meet and interact in the future and associate a feeling of closeness. This is important to display rules in how we will react depending on whether we will see the person again. If, on the one hand, the possibility or motivation for meeting the same person again at a later time is high, then individuals will be more likely to express emotions as they feel them. However, if the possibility or motivation for meeting the same person again later is low, then individuals will be more motivated to manage their emotional displays in the current interaction, hiding what they truly feel. If we base our emotional display rules, on whether we will see the person again or not, we can prevent an intimate relationship from ever forming in the first place, because we may not express our true emotions at the …show more content…
Mirgain and James V. Cordova (2007), which focuses on emotion skills and marital health. The broad goal of the study was to further test a model in which intimacy mediates the relationship between emotion skills and relationship satisfaction. Of all the domains of life, intimate marital relationships are, definitely, consistently emotionally challenging. The main thing we need to know from this study, what are emotion skills? Emotion skills, according to Mirgain and Cordova (2007), refer to relationally skillful emotional enactments. Their basic premise is that people learn through their interactions with others how to behave in the context of their emotional reactions. Let us compare emotion skill to display rules. Display rules are, the appropriate ways of displaying emotions in a particular society, these rules are developed through past emotional experience. To me, emotion skills are display rules. In this study, Mirgain and Cordova, cover all aspects of emotion, measuring, including (1) identification and communication of emotions, (2) emotion control, (3) comfort with emotional expression, and (4) empathy. This article shows that, our Emotion skills, which are our emotional reactions, developed through life interactions, are altered in relationships because we want to please our partners as well as ourselves in that relationship. This is important to my research because it shows, our display rules can be
Barbara Feliciano
Columbia College
Abstract
As we discussed different topics in this class, a specific one I wanted to research further was, Display rules. The purpose of my research is to discover whether an individual’s display rules, plays a role on their intimate relationships. Although we may have similar display rules, they will all vary depending on our upbringing. The research used for my study will be, Archival research, using the Stafford Library Ebsco Host resources. I found that display rules can effect intimate relationships in many ways such as, the way couples show affection to each other, as well as how they are able to communicate, and their relationship …show more content…
. Cultural meanings produce differences in the nature of relationships across cultures, which recruit different display rules to affect the regulation of emotional expressions in those relationships (Hwang. 2012). A main reason differences in emotional expressions exist may be because of cultural display rules. Hwang study focuses on the, perceived relationship commitment, which is, the motivation to meet and interact in the future and associate a feeling of closeness. This is important to display rules in how we will react depending on whether we will see the person again. If, on the one hand, the possibility or motivation for meeting the same person again at a later time is high, then individuals will be more likely to express emotions as they feel them. However, if the possibility or motivation for meeting the same person again later is low, then individuals will be more motivated to manage their emotional displays in the current interaction, hiding what they truly feel. If we base our emotional display rules, on whether we will see the person again or not, we can prevent an intimate relationship from ever forming in the first place, because we may not express our true emotions at the …show more content…
Mirgain and James V. Cordova (2007), which focuses on emotion skills and marital health. The broad goal of the study was to further test a model in which intimacy mediates the relationship between emotion skills and relationship satisfaction. Of all the domains of life, intimate marital relationships are, definitely, consistently emotionally challenging. The main thing we need to know from this study, what are emotion skills? Emotion skills, according to Mirgain and Cordova (2007), refer to relationally skillful emotional enactments. Their basic premise is that people learn through their interactions with others how to behave in the context of their emotional reactions. Let us compare emotion skill to display rules. Display rules are, the appropriate ways of displaying emotions in a particular society, these rules are developed through past emotional experience. To me, emotion skills are display rules. In this study, Mirgain and Cordova, cover all aspects of emotion, measuring, including (1) identification and communication of emotions, (2) emotion control, (3) comfort with emotional expression, and (4) empathy. This article shows that, our Emotion skills, which are our emotional reactions, developed through life interactions, are altered in relationships because we want to please our partners as well as ourselves in that relationship. This is important to my research because it shows, our display rules can be