Preschoolers' Emotional Understanding of Others Who Are Ethnically the Same or Different

dc.contributor.advisorStrein, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorMende, Lindaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-02T06:22:23Z
dc.date.available2005-02-02T06:22:23Z
dc.date.issued2004-11-22en_US
dc.description.abstractAccording to Mayer and Salovey (1997), emotional understanding is the ability to "label emotions and recognize relations among the words and the emotions themselves". While children at an early age are aware of racial differences, do children understand emotions differently for others of another ethnic group? This study considered the potential impact of race on understanding the emotions of others, by focusing on children's accuracy in inferring story characters' emotional response during emotion-eliciting situations. The cultural component involved the racial match between the participant and the story character. Study findings indicate that preschoolers understood others' emotions similarly, regardless of racial background. Study results also examined children's overall accuracy and assignment of emotional intensity. Similar to previous emotional understanding results, preschoolers found happy emotions the most easily identifiable and the most intense. In contrast, angry emotions were the most difficult to identify and the least intense emotion.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1975
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Developmentalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledemotional understandingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledemotionsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledracial/ethnic groupsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpreschoolersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledminority groupsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddevelopmenten_US
dc.titlePreschoolers' Emotional Understanding of Others Who Are Ethnically the Same or Differenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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