Boon, M. (2024) Exploring the Spectrum of Responses to Art: A Comparative Analysis of Sex-Based Development Across Life Stages. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Art and the reception of art have been cornerstones of society for as long as there has been society. Despite this, there has not yet been a lot of research on how sociodemographic factors, like biological sex and age, have an impact on art reception, even though this could tell us a lot about the development of human beings. The aim of this study is to attempt to increase this amount of research, by investigating whether there are biological or age-related differences in the process of sense-making regarding art in children. Based upon the current research, the expected results are that biological males use as much or even more semiotic strategies than biological females. Moreover, age is expected to be a big predictor on the degree of engagement of sense-making in art. Finally, it is also suspected that participants that were assigned female at birth will feel and thereby report stronger emotions than participants that were assigned male at birth. In the study, a mixed method approach was used in which both qualitative and quantitative data was collected. The participants (N = 44), who were between the ages 6 and 17 (M = 11.07), were asked to join as dyads. These duos then filled out a questionnaire that assessed, among other things, their emotional state. The dyads then participated in a semi-structured interview in the form of a prompted conversation that measured their sense-making through the use of semiotic strategies. Upon analysis of the collected data, it was found that there are no significant differences between the amount of semiotic strategies used in biological males compared to biological females. What was found, is that for the semiotic strategies Conceptualization and Analysis, age is a good predictor for the number of strategies used. There also were no statistically significant results in the reporting of emotions when comparing the assigned male participants to the assigned female participants. Keywords: biological sex, boys, girls, children, emotional response, sense-making, receptive art, mixed methods, semiotic strategies, biological sex differences, emotions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Schino, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2024 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2024 09:34 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3175 |
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