Psychological Development and Education ›› 2004, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 30-36.

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The Application of Children’s Display in a Disappointing Situation

ZHANG Li, XIN Zi-qiang   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China 100875
  • Online:2004-10-15 Published:2004-10-15

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Abstract: With 91 children of primary school from grade 1、3、5 as subjects,applying the method of story-interviewing the present study explored the development of the application of children's display rule and its influential factors in a disappointing situation.The result showed:(1)Children's real emotion and apparent emotion showed an increasingly positive trend from grade1 to grade 5,and in a disappointing situation,both in real emotion and apparent emotion,girls and boys didn't show significant difference;(2)In three kinds of interpersonal relations,there were extreme difference between children's apparent and real emotion,and for different interpersonal relation,the use of display rule were different,which could be attributed to the difference of children's regulation strategies;(3)In a disappointing situation the use of children's display rule was subjected to different interpersonal types,which could be related to children's different expectation of the social influence to their emotion expression.(4)Children's emotional display objective was not subjected to interpersonal types,and in different kinds of interpersonal relations children's emotional display objective was not dependent on their grade and sex.

Key words: emotional display rule, disappointing situation, children of primary school

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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