Young Children\'s Emotional Recognition and Empathy Related to Social Cues and types of emotion
AUTHOR : 이상미,한세영
INFORMATION : page. 187~210 / 2011 Vol.18 No.2
ABSTRACT
\"The purpose of this study is to examine young children’s emotional recognition and empathy across diverse social cues and across different types of emotion. The subjects of this study were 104 four-and five-year-old children and their mothers in Cheong-ju. The children participated in interviews measuring their emotional recognition and empathy, and mothers responded to a questionnaire to report on general background information. Data obtained from the interviews and the survey were processed using SPSS 12.0, and analyzed by frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, paired t-test, and F-test. The results of this study are as follows; First, girls were better at empathy than boys and older children were better at emotional recognition and empathy than younger ones. Second, the young children recognized and empathized with negative emotions better than with positive emotions. Third, children used more situational cues than facial cues and miscellaneous cues. Particularly, when facial cues contradicted situational cues, children who used situational cues were better at emotional recognition and empathy than children who used facial cues primarily. Fourth, young children were better at emotional recognition and empathy when situational cues were concordant with facial cues than when they were contradictory to each other.
Key words : Social Cues, Empathy, Emotional Recognition, types of emotion\"