Abstract:

Emotions play an important role in human life and focusing on the face area in which emotions first appear in the human body facilitates understanding emotions. The aim of this study is to study the psychological consultant candidates’ abilities to recognize the emotions in their face expressions; gender, class, place of residence in which they spend a large part of their life, five-factor personality characteristics and cognitive emotional regulation strategies. The research participants consist of 235 Psychological Consultancy and Leadership Bachelor students. In the collection of data; Personal Information Form, JACFEE photo set, Five Big Personality Factor Inventory and the Cognitive Emotional Regulation Scale were used. In the analysis of the data; explicative statistics, t test for independent samples, multi-variant variance analysis (MANOVA) and multi-regression analysis were applied. The research results showed that there was no statistically significant difference in the recognition of the emotions in the face expressions of the participants from gender to gender, but there was a significant difference in the class level, the place of residence in which they spent a large part of their lives and the mother’s educational status. Five factors also showed that personality characteristics have a relationship between the subdimensions of emotional imbalance and the expression of tickness, and that cognitive emotional regulation strategies have a relationship between the subdimensions of self-accusing, positive re-focus and positive re-review, and the neutral expression; the other are a relationship between the expression of accusing and humiliating. These findings have been discussed in the context of similar research on the recognition of emotions in facial expressions.

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