Children\'s Affective Perspective Taking in the Interpretation of Discrepant Messages from Facial and Verbal Cues
AUTHOR : 유주연, 이순형
INFORMATION : page. 77~88 / 2006 Vol.13 No.2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate children\'s affective perspective taking of speakers in the interpretation of discrepant messages from facial and verbal information depending on children\'s age and representing emotions. Subjects were sixty-seven 3-year-old children and seventy-five 5-year-old children recruited from four day-care centers in Seoul and Kyong-gi province. The task has ten circumstances of discrepant messages about speaker\'s emotion from facial expression and verbal content. Statistical methods used for data analysis were frequencies, percentiles, means, standard deviations, paired t-test, the goodness of fit, the multi-dimensional chi-square. Major findings were as follows: 1. There was significant difference in children\'s use of facial and verbal cues for speaker\'s affective perspective taking depending on children\'s age. 5-year-olds could use one specific communication channel consistently as a cue for speaker\'s affective perspective taking. While 3-year-olds decided speaker\'s affective perspective without any rule using communication channels. 2. There was a significant difference in children\'s use of facial and verbal cues for speaker\'s affective perspective taking depending on channels\' presenting emotion. It seemed easier for children to interpret the facial expression when it present positive emotion like happiness.