Children's understanding of emotion in reference to other’s desire and past experience

• Main Authors: Ching-Hsuan Chiu, 邱靖軒
• Other Authors: 金瑞芝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5utv95

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 兒童發展碩士學位學程 === 102 === The purpose of this study was to explore children's understanding of emotion in reference to others’ desires and past experiences. The subjects consisted of 180 children (4, 5,6 years old) , who came from Taipei city and New Taipei city. There were 90 girls and 90 boys. Children were interviewed individually. Their responses to six hypothetical stories were coded and analyzed. The major findings were as follows： 1. In the desire situations, 6 years old children were better than 4 years old. 2. Children’s understandings in simple desire situations were better than those in conflicting desire situations. 3. In the past experience situations, 5 and 6 years old children were better than 4 years old. 4. When Children’s understandings in non–expression-clue situations were better than those in given-expression-clue situations. 5. Besides, children’s understandings in the negative emotion situations were better than those in the positive ones. 6. Finally, in given-expression-clue situations, children’s performance were better in present-past unfit situation than those in fit ones. The results are discussed in terms of socialization processes, gender differential processes of emotional socialization, and cultural influences on children’s emotional understanding.