Antecedents of emotion knowledge: Predictors of individual differences in young children

Abstract

Individual differences in emotion knowledge were examined among 188 4-year-old, predominantly African American children. Cognitive ability and negative emotionality, maternal characteristics (parenting, verbal intelligence, and depressive symptoms), environmental risk, and child sex were examined as predictors of emotion knowledge. Regression analyses indicated that cognitively skilled children who resided in relatively low risk environments with verbally intelligent mothers possessed greater emotion knowledge. Proximal (4-year) child cognitive ability was a stronger predictor than distal (2-year) cognitive ability. Positive parenting at 4 years was correlated with child emotion knowledge, but this relation disappeared when parenting was examined in the context of other predictors. These findings highlight the potential role of child cognitive ability, along with environmental risk and maternal verbal intelligence, in children's emotion knowledge and demonstrate the importance of examining a variety of predictors for their unique contribution to emotion knowledge.

Children's identification of graphic symbols representing four basic emotions: Comparison of Afrikaans-speaking and Sepedi-speaking children

“…Such results seem to support studies by Bennett, Bendersky and Lewis (2005) as well as by MacDonald and Kirkpatrick (1996),in which no gender differences were indicated. The study by Bennett et al (2005) investigated individual differences in emotion knowledge, while MacDonald and investigated how accurately children recognised facial expressions for emotions using schematic drawings and photographs as stimuli. Kirkpatrick and Bell (1996) mentioned that the gender differences found in some studies investigating emotions were likely to be indicative of method rather than actual differences.…”

Emotion understanding in preschool children

“…Another characteristic associated with emotion understanding is IQ (Bennett, Bendersky, & Lewis, 2005;Pears & Fisher, 2005;Sullivan, Bennett, Carpenter, & Lewis, 2008;cf. Montirosso, Peverelli, Frigerio, Crespi, & Borgatti, 2010).…”

Wzorce Funkcjonowania Rodziny Pochodzenia A inteligencja Emocjonalna Młodych Dorosłych

“…[11] Z efektywną komunikacją wiąże się również satysfakcja z życia rodzinnego definiowana jako stopień, w jakim członkowie rodziny czują się ze sobą szczęśliwi i spełnieni. Badania potwierdzają, że prawidłowemu rozwojowi emocjonalnemu sprzyjają ciepło rodzicielskie, troska, pozytywny klimat emocjonalny (Bennett, Bendersky, Lewis, 2005), akceptacja dzieci przez rodziców (Bhatia, 2012). Kiedy rodzic wykazuje postawę pełną ciepła i serdecznego nastawienia, wówczas dzieci doświadczają mniej złości i rzadziej przejawiają agresywne zachowania, wynikające z odczuwania silnych, przykrych emocji (Eisenberg, 2005).…”