The understanding of emotion among young Chinese children

Abstract

The development of emotion understanding in young Chinese preschoolers was examined. The overall developmental trend, as measured by the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC), proved similar to that found among preschoolers in Western Europe. However, Chinese children performed better at understanding the distinction between real and apparent emotion and worse at understanding the connection between reminders and emotion. Children’s theory of mind and verbal ability were significant predictors of their ability to understand emotion.

Pathways to behavior problems in Norwegian kindergarten children: The role of parent emotion socialization and child emotion understanding

“…In a cross‐cultural study using the TEC (Pons & Harris, 2000) to asses cultural differences in phases of emotional development, Tang, Harris, Pons, Zou, Zhang and Xu (2018) found that Chinese children ( N = 65; age = 4–6), developed an understanding of emotions that followed a pattern similar to that found in Western European preschoolers. Chinese preschoolers did, however, perform better at understanding hidden emotions compared to European children, and worse at linking reminders to emotions.…”

Тест На Понимание Эмоций: Адаптация Русскоязычной Версии На Российской Выборке Детей Дошкольного Возраста

“…С разрешения авторов данная методика была переведена на русский язык (подробное описание методики представлено ниже). Методика переведена на 21 язык и широко используется исследователями в Англии, Италии, Бразилии, Китае, Норвегии и других странах (Albanese et al, 2006;Tang et al, 2018;Fidalgo et al, 2018), что обеспечивает возможность проведения международных исследований. Работы, проведенные с использованием данного теста, показали, что он обладает хорошей надежностью и конструктной валидностью (например: Tang et al, 2018).…”

“…Как и в оригинальной версии теста, в русскоязычной выборке не были выявлены гендерные различия ни по одному из компонентов теста. Аналогичные результаты были получены при адаптации данного теста на итальянской, английской и китайской выборке (Albanese et al, 2006;Tang et al, 2018;Fidalgo et al, 2018).…”

Emotions in motion: impact of emotion understanding on children’s peer action coordination

“…But it is only from around 8 to 10 years of age that they become able to understand moral and mixed emotions, and the possibility to regulate emotions by the mean of psychological strategies. Despite individual and cultural variations in emotion understanding development, this hierarchical organization has been found across different cultures (for a review, see Tang et al, 2018). Recent studies have also indicated that children's emotion understanding is an important predictor of their psychological well-being (e.g.…”