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The Study on the Age Characters, Development Trend and Sex Differences of Preschoolers’ Emotion Competence

YAO Duan-wei, CHEN Ying-he, ZHAO Yan-qin   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2004-04-15 Published:2004-04-15

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Abstract: 150 children aged 3-5 years participated in the research.An interview was conducted to investigate the age characters,developmental trend and sex differences.The Results indicated:(1) There was a significant change of emotion understanding between three-four year old.Children's understanding of positive emotion was superior to understanding of negative emotion.Girls performed better than boys on affective perspective-taking task.(2) The mostly used emotion regulation strategy was instructive strategy,next was the avoiding strategy and emotion venting strategy,the last one was the destroyed strategy.(3) The ability of affective perspective-taking predicted the development of emotion regulation.

Key words: emotion competence, emotion understanding, emotion regulation

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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