Measurement and association of sideways emotions with emotional expressivity among adolescents.

Objective: To examine the development of a scale for measuring sideways emotions, and to examine the relationship of sideways emotions with emotional expressivity of adolescents.

Methods: The two-phase cross-sectional study was conducted at the educational institutions of Sargodha and Bhalwal, Pakistan from October 2, 2017 to October 6, 2018, and comprised of 300 adolescents, aged 18-24 years. In the first phase, development of the Sideways Emotion Scale for adolescents was done, while the second phase examined the correlation of sideways emotions with positive and negative emotional expressivity.