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March 6, 2026Open Access

Intimacy, emotional awareness and expressiveness

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WNWendy Elaine Nickerson

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Examines the impact of an emotional awareness intervention on intimacy and emotional expressiveness in males and females, suggesting minimal effects.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore the connection between emotional awareness, emotional expressiveness, and intimacy, and the effectiveness of a therapeutic intervention.
  • Twenty male and twenty female interviewees assessed on emotional awareness and expressiveness.
  • Experiment with one group exposed to emotional awareness intervention and a control group.
  • Pretests and posttests were administered to measure emotional awareness effectiveness.
  • Participants engaged in video-taped discussions, rated for emotional intimacy by observers.
  • Two behavioral measures (Affectivity Scale and word count) assessed emotional expressiveness.
  • Positive correlation found between behavioral measures of expressiveness.
  • Emotional awareness positively linked to one measure of expressiveness (number of words used).
  • Intimacy correlated positively with emotional awareness but not with emotional expression.
  • Therapeutic intervention did not significantly enhance emotional awareness or expression.
  • No significant differences in intimacy levels observed between intervention and control groups.

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Wendy Elaine Nickerson (1994) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69aa70a9531e4c4a9ff5ab1ahttps://doi.org/10.26108/mp75-4w86
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