Acessment of emotional development for psychophysiological methods

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650373
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Physical education
• Research Institution: University of Fukui
• Principal Investigator: UMEZAWA Akio 福井大学, 教育地域科学部, 教授 (70151925)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: emotion / development / psychophysiology

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There have been few psychophysiological studies concerning about developmental changes of emotions during childhood because following difficulties have prevented from conducting experiments: (1) difficulties in evoking emotions naturally in the experimental setting, (2) the necessity of ethical considerations on researchers developing research designs, and (3) difficulties in quantitative evaluations of emotional changes using by physiological responses. Therefore in this study we presented positive and negative emotional stimuli to mother and her child under the adequate ethical considerations and conducted physiological measurements with little load to subjects (mother and a child). We also found the results in this study which showed the relationship between emotional regulations and psychophysiological healthy conditions of children and adolescents.

Free Research Field

Psychophysiology of Emotions