Individual Differences Affecting Emotion Perception among Undergraduate Students
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Emotion plays an important role in our daily life such as sad, sorrow or happiness depending
on external or internal factors like situations, personality or gender differences. The purpose of this
research was to investigate the relationship between gender, Big Five personalities and emotion
perception. The sample comprised 180 undergraduate students of Burapha University in the
Academic Year 2016. The samples were randomly selected by multi-stage random sampling. The
research instruments were Big-Five Personality Scale, Self-Assessment Manikin Thai Version (SAMThai) Scale, and emotion pictures from Thai Affective Picture Bank System (Thai APBS). Data were
analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation coeffcient analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The results were as follows:
1. Male and female of undergraduate students and felds of study had a difference in BigFive Personalities by differing in Agreeableness but there were no any differences in Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism.
2. The differences of gender and personalities of undergraduate students had an effect on
emotion perception as follows;
2.1 Gender and Extraversion had an effect on valence.
2.2 Gender, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness had an effect on arousal.
2.3 Gender had an effect on dominance.
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