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The Development of Young Children’s Understanding of Emotion and Its Relation to Their Social Behaviors

DENG Ci-ping, SANG Biao, MIAO Xiao-chun   

  1. Department of Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai
  • Online:2002-01-15 Published:2002-01-15

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Abstract: Eighty-two 3-and 4-year-olds who just enrolled in one kindergarten were examined in order to explore developing relations between their understanding of emotion and their social behaviors.Their family emotional expressiveness was also surveyed by family emotional expressiveness questionnaires just before they enrolled in kindergarten.Their understanding of emotion was assessed by one experimenter after they had been in preschool for 2 months.At the end of the first semester,their development of social behaviors was assessed by their close teachers.It was found in that the differnet aspects of their parents'emotional expressiveness had a bit different relations to their development of emotion understanding and social behaviors.The study also replicated and extended the findings that young children's emotion understanding may mediate between their family expressiveness and their development of social behaviors.

Key words: emotion understanding, young children’s development, social behaviors, family emotional expressiveness

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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