Psychological Development and Education ›› 2002, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 34-39.

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Elementary School Students’ Understanding of the Social-regulatory Functions of Emotion

LUO Zheng, GUO Dejun, FANG Ping   

  1. Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100089
  • Online:2002-07-15 Published:2002-07-15

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Abstract: This paper inspected elementary school students'(Grade 2,4,6) understanding of the social-regulatory functions of ermtion.Students thought that anger's effect was different from the effects of sadness and fear on socialregulatory function:anger signaled expresser's power or dominance,eliciting recipient's fear and apology;sadness and fear signaled expresser feel weak,eliciting recipient's sadness and goal reinstatement,and sometimes fear can elicit recipient's happy.Students thought there were no different effects on expresser's social goal armng anger, sadness and fear.There were Mme grade differences in elementary school students'understanding of the social-regulatory functions of ermtion.

Key words: emotion, emotion understanding, social-regulatory, primary school students

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