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A Study On The 3-6 Year-old's Development Of Ability Of Emotional Dissembalnce

Posted on:2011-03-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305489608Subject:Development and educational psychology
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The development of the ability of emotional dissemblance of children has become an important part of the development of the society. With the development of the ability of children's theory mind and the socialization of the whole society, the experience and emotional expression of children perform incoherence which is called emotional dissemblance after the mastering the rules of the emotional expression. Individual emotional dissemblance considers two motivations as basic, the prosocial and self-protective. At the same time, the development of the ability of emotional dissemblance of children is also affected by the influence of the elements inside (verbal ability, gender rule, socialization,etc) and elements outside(companion, family, culture,etc). The study on the development of the ability of emotional dissemblance of children is not only deeper the understanding of the aspect of the children's theory mind, but also will provide the instructions of the development of the education of the children's emotion.The aim of this study is to investigate the features of the emotional dissemblance of children from 3 to 6 years old, including the features of the ages, the difference of the gender, the features of the emotional dissemblance under different types and motivations, which will discuss the mechanism of the emotional dissemblance.This article uses the method of story content. Taking 123 children from 3 to 6 as the subjects, through "distinction between real and apparent emotion" task and "false beliefs" task to discuss the development of the mechanism of the emotional dissemblance from 3 to 6 in our country. The results are as follows:1. With the development of the age, the ability of emotional dissemblance of chidren demonstrates to ascend.The defferences of adjacent age are obvious. Within the experiment, the age of 3 to 5 is the important period of the development of the emotional dissemblance.The differences of chidren's emotional dissemblance are not distinct.2. Under the two different emotional types, the ability of negative emotional dissemblance of children is obviously higer than the ability of active emotional dissemblance of children in the ability of emotional dissemblance.3. The difference of the understanding of two dissemblance motivations(prosocial, self-protective) of children is not visual.4. The development of the ability of emotional dissemblance of children is relate to the development and progression of false beliefs which belongs to the theory of mind. According to the logic analysis of the debate, we can arrive at the conclusion that the mechanism cognition of children's emotional dissemblance is the understanding of false beliefs.
Keywords/Search Tags:children, emotional dissemblance, false beliefs
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