2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The development of preschool children's views about functions of emotional expressions: Longitudinal analysis from four-year-olds to six-year-olds
Project/Area Number |
23530868
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Educational psychology
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Research Institution | Toyo University |
Principal Investigator |
KUBO Yukari 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (10195498)
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Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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Keywords | 情動発達 / 情動表出 / 情動経験 / 幼児期 / 縦断的研究 / インタビュー調査 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study is to explore the development of preschool children's views about functions of emotional expressions. Four-year-olds were interviewed and asked questions; "Have you ever felt happy (sad, or angry) in your preschool?", "what kind of event made you happy (sad, or angry)?", and "how do your classmates may react to your happy (sad, or angry) expression?" They were interviewed again in one year and two years later. The findings were as follows; almost all of four-year-olds reported on happy experiences and more than half of five-year-olds reported on the functions of happy and sad expressions. On angry expressions, even six-year-olds were less likely to report functions of them. It was suggested that understanding of the angry expression’s functions might be more difficult than happy ones and sad ones. And results also suggested that there was diversity in developmental changes of preschool children’s views about functions of emotional expressions.
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Free Research Field |
社会性の発達心理学
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