Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to compare the emotion of students by gender while looking at the emotional pictures, to compare the emotions between normal students and students with learning disabilities, and to test an interaction effect between gender and the learning ability on emotions of the student while looking at pictures eliciting the valence, arousal, and dominance emotions. The sample consisted of 120 junior high school students in Sriboonrueng District (60 healthy students and 60 students with learning disabilities), selected by using purposive sampling. The study involved 1) a screening process for the students with learning disabilities (secondary), 2) pictures of emotions from the Thai Affective Picture Bank System, 3) the Thai version of Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM Thai).
Descriptive statistics and two-way MANOVA were used to analyze the data.
It was found that:
1. There was a statistically-significantly gender difference on valence (p<.05),
but not on the arousal and dominance emotions.
2. When comparing normal and learning-disabled students, significant
differences (.01 level) were found on all three emotions: valence, arousal, and dominance.
3. There was an interaction effect between gender and learning ability on
the valence emotion (p<.01), but not on the arousal and dominance emotions.