The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of training on the recognition of facial expressions of emotion in a sample of deaf high school students at a residential school for the deaf. Three hypotheses were under investigation in this study. They were (1) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with matching classes of facial meaning, (2) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with grouping facial expressions by class of meaning, and (3) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with recognizing specific types of facial meaning. Subjects for this study were forty-four volunteers from the junior and senior classes at the Virginia School for the Deaf. All students in this study were able to communicate in sign language. Subjects were assigned at random to one of four groups with each group having eleven subjects. The Soloman Four Group Design was utilized as the appropriate research model. Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion was provided via videotape. The instructor used sign language and followed a training outline developed by Ekman and his associates. The Test of Facial Meaning was used as both pretest and posttest. The items in this test are from the Ekman series of photographs of facial expressions of emotion. The pretest and posttest were presented to the subjects via videotape while instructions for the test were given in sign language. The analysis of variance for each hypothesis failed to reveal any significant effect attributed solely to training, although training did result in an increased accuracy of recognition of facial expression of emotion for each hypothesis tested. The results of / this investigation revealed that while deaf people were able to accurately recognize classes of facial expressions of emotion and could then accurately group facial expressions of emotion by class of meaning, they were less able to accurately identify specific types of facial expressions of emotion. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: A, page: 3883. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74273 |
| Contributors | HAYNES, THOMAS HOUSER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 105 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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