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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Do We Need to Redefine Concepts of Emotions and
Explore New Techniques for Its Research?
Štefanija Jaksetič Dujc
(The Faculty of Theology, Department of Marital and Family Therapy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Abstract: The research is focused on the history of scientific works and articles that define emotions. The concepts of emotions were selected from contemporary theories of psychotherapies and were used in new scientific questionnaire for the differentiation of self. An overview of the history of research on the subject of emotion in scientific literature suggests a strong increase in research in this field, especially after the year 2000 and it also finds a deeper diversification of emotions and concepts. The questionnaire on the subject of emotions that we studied is a newer multi-level and multi-dimensional questionnaire for emotions (Skowron & Friedlander, 1998; Skowron & Schmitt, 2003). The questionnaire is based on Murray Bowen’s theory of family systems. Thus, the survey also includes a more detailed overview of the basic concepts of emotion in Bowen family system theory and seeks to find similar concepts in Relational marriage and family theory as well as in Emotionally Focused Theory. This paper raises some guidelines for further research on the topic of redefining emotions and for further use of the questionnaire for the differentiation of self in therapy.
Key words: emotions, feelings, intergenerational transfer, behaviour, genogram, differentiation of self