The purpose of the present study was to investigate the emotional messages in childrenâs picture books and how they differ by both gender and age. Specifically, I hypothesized that female characters would be illustrated and described in the text as more emotional than males especially with regards to love, sadness, and fear whereas male characters were hypothesized to be illustrated and described more often as angry than females. These differences were also considered by age of the character, especially for sadness and anger whereby adult males were hypothesized to be portrayed showing the least sadness and adults were hypothesized to be portrayed expressing more anger than children. Lastly, the present study was intended to examine the gender-emotion stereotypes in childrenâs picture books over time, and so a sample of current best-selling books published between 1950 and present were selected. Results revealed that gender-emotion stereotypes were less prevalent than expected, but that in fact females were portrayed expressing more love than males and males more anger than females. Further, adults were portrayed expressing more love and anger than children. Limitations and implications for future research are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-05022008-085227 |
| Date | 06 August 2008 |
| Creators | Craig, Ashley B |
| Contributors | Amy G. Halberstadt, Jason Allaire, Mary Wyer |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05022008-085227/ |
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