Effect of Emotional Expressivity on Adolescent's Mental Health
Chapter 1
Introduction
Mysterious as they are inexorabel ,emotions seem to come and go as they please. No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending. Our shared belief that emotions are powerfull and uncontrollable is reflected in different legal penalties associated with “crimes of passion” It is also reflected in our everyday language, by phrases such as “beside oneself with grief” , “lovestruck” and “carried away by anger”. Emotion:
Emotions are biologically based reactions that coordinate adaptive responding to important opportunities and challenges. (Leveson, 1994; Tooby & cosmides, 1990) Emotional expression has long been given a central role in the study and practice of psychology. Both historically and recently, psychologists have cited the expression of emotions as vital for good mental and physical health, although the inhibition of emotion was considered deleterious.
Theories of emotions:
James-Lange Theory:
Preeminent American psychologist William James published the first widely influential theory of emotion in 1884. According to this theory when an individual is presented with an emotional object it first stimulates the appropriate sensory organs. These afferent signals are then sent to the cortex, triggering “variously combined” ordinary motor-sensorial “brain processes”. According to James, it is the afferent signals from the bodily changes that account for the emotional experience.
In other way when a person is presented with an emotional stimulus, he or she feels some sort of physiological arousal, which causes a psychological emotion to be experienced. James stated that emotion was “the feeling of bodily changes which follow the perception of an exciting event,”
(Cannon & Walter, 1927)
Robert Plutchik's theory: Robert Plutchik's psycho evolutionary theory of emotion is one of the most
Introduction
Mysterious as they are inexorabel ,emotions seem to come and go as they please. No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending. Our shared belief that emotions are powerfull and uncontrollable is reflected in different legal penalties associated with “crimes of passion” It is also reflected in our everyday language, by phrases such as “beside oneself with grief” , “lovestruck” and “carried away by anger”. Emotion:
Emotions are biologically based reactions that coordinate adaptive responding to important opportunities and challenges. (Leveson, 1994; Tooby & cosmides, 1990) Emotional expression has long been given a central role in the study and practice of psychology. Both historically and recently, psychologists have cited the expression of emotions as vital for good mental and physical health, although the inhibition of emotion was considered deleterious.
Theories of emotions:
James-Lange Theory:
Preeminent American psychologist William James published the first widely influential theory of emotion in 1884. According to this theory when an individual is presented with an emotional object it first stimulates the appropriate sensory organs. These afferent signals are then sent to the cortex, triggering “variously combined” ordinary motor-sensorial “brain processes”. According to James, it is the afferent signals from the bodily changes that account for the emotional experience.
In other way when a person is presented with an emotional stimulus, he or she feels some sort of physiological arousal, which causes a psychological emotion to be experienced. James stated that emotion was “the feeling of bodily changes which follow the perception of an exciting event,”
(Cannon & Walter, 1927)
Robert Plutchik's theory: Robert Plutchik's psycho evolutionary theory of emotion is one of the most