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[Affect and gender]
Visitación Alcalá1, Manuel Camacho, Daniel Giner
1Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. valcala@us.es
Unlabelled:
Studies about affect and differences with regards to gender and age throw little conclusive results. There is a certain agreement on stablishing a bifactorial structure that would integrate the different dimensions of affect.
Objective:
the aim is to analyze the distinguishing characteristics of affect in normal populations as a function of gender and age.
Method:
120 people of both sexes, between 18 and 50 years old, and divided into a young and an adult group are studied.
Results:
men keep a longer continuity in their affect through their lives, while women have feelings of happiness and joy from their past, that turn into insecurity and sadness at their present.
Conclusion:
a distinguishing profile of affect with regards to gender and age can be stated.
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