Abstract
<em>Despite seemingly countless studies addressing emotional expressiveness, most of these studies were focused on western communities, neglecting the Arab community in general, and the Jordanian discourse in particular. The purpose of this paper is to examine how paralinguistic features of emotional expression are used by male and female Jordanian Facebookers. A total of 100 participants, 50 males and 50 females, took part in this study, all of whom were native Jordanians. The current study was conducted by utilizing the “Web for corpus building” approach, as the data has been extracted manually from Facebook status updates, comments on other users’ status updates, photos, wall posts and so on. The findings revealed that women experience and express emotions more often than men in general. More studies with different contextual factors (e.g., age, social status, and ethnicity) and a different sources of data collection (e.g., face-to-face interaction, role plays, and observation) are recommended for future studies.</em>
Highlights
In eastern popular culture, it is highly believed that there are gender differences in children’s emotion expressions (Banikalef, Marlyna, & Ashinida, 2014)
To date, an analysis of emotional expressiveness in online discourse is still at infancy and should be explored (Parkins, 2012; Banikalef, Marlyna, & Ashinida, 2014). As such purpose of this study is based upon the recommendation suggested in Banikalef, Marlyna and Ashinida (2014) calling for more research to be conducted in an online context of social networking sites
In line with Banikalef et al (2014) and Bjørnsson (2010) who argue that Facebook is growing in popularity among young people of, or approaching, university age, the sample in the current study is taken from Jordanian undergraduate Facebook users aged between 18 to 24 years old
Summary
It is highly believed that there are gender differences in children’s emotion expressions (Banikalef, Marlyna, & Ashinida, 2014). Micro blogging is one of Facebook’s most popular features (Buechel & Berger, 2012) This feature allows Facebook users to share text-based messages (e.g., status updates) about their thoughts, emotions, and activities with other Facebook users (Settanni & Marengo, 2015; Banikalef et al, 2014). Many studies have been carried out on gender differences in emotional expressiveness, few of them used Facebook as research tool to examine online emotional disclosure (e.g., Parkins, 2012; Aljasir, Bajnaid, Elyas, & Alnawasrah, 2017; Settanni & Marengo, 2015). This extension is made by examining emotional expressiveness in Facebook status update produced by young Arab Jordanian Facebook users
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