The Impact of Gender on Emotions and Age Acting as a Moderator

The impact of gender on emotions and age acting as a moderator.

SADAF SADIQ (4027)

FAIZA ASLAM (4002)

RABIA AFZAL (3944)

SAHER AHMED (3921)

NAILA SAFEER (3926)

INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

05/20/2010

ABSTRACT

Emotional expression is the lifeblood of any organization or community. This study provides a particular focus on how organizational work commitment and performance is gendered and emotionalized. This study investigated what impact gender have on employee emotions for employee well-being. Work commitment research has also not adequately addressed the importance of emotions as part of Commitment. It is this lack of attention to the importance of the relationships between gender and emotions and their impact on work commitment, and how this relationship is understood from the perspective of organizational members that underpins the need for research in this area. The research is also based on age acting as a moderator in the relationship of gender and emotion. Recent research investigating emotion in old age suggests that autonomic responsiveness diminishes with age. The experiential aspects of emotion, however, show less marked age differences. As concerned to the emotional expressions research seems to suggest that older adults are better than younger adults at regulating socially-relevant emotional information, older adults are not affected by negative emotions as much as younger counterparts. With age comes the ability to better regulate emotions in order to not disrupt performance on a memory-intensive task. Future studies should also be conducted to determine exactly how older adults achieved the same emotion-regulatory goal with less cognitive effort.

INTRODUCTION

The workplace is one of the most interpersonally frustrating contexts that people have to deal with. The study is important to examine the emotional expression content of human resources and how the content varies by gender. Gender...