Emotional expressiveness, Emotional control, and Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness in Runaway and Normal Girls

The processes that control and express emotions play a fundamental role in mental health. They are discussed the factors underlying psychopathology and physical illness. The present study aim examined emotional control, emotional expressiveness, and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness in runaway and Normal girls. Based on the entry criteria and available sampling, 50 runaway and 50 normal girls selected and then were evaluated by questionnaire including emotional control (ECQ), emotional expressiveness (EEQ) and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness (AEQ).Data analysis using MANOVAshowed that normal girls were higher than runaway girls in the components of emotional inhibition, aggression control, rumination of emotional control style, While groups did not differ in benign control component. Normal girls are higher than runaway girls in positive emotion express, negative emotion express and intimacy of emotional expressiveness. Also runaway girls are higher than normal girls in ambivalence over positive emotions expression and ambivalence over entitlement expressiveness of ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. Behavioral correlates of expression and control styles of emotion are risk factors of delinquency and runaway phenomena, and they have many applications in the field of preventive and therapeutic interventions of delinquency behaviors.