| Emotion sharing is a common phenomenon in social life. In social life, various emotional events happen at all times and all places. After these events, people incline to talk voluntarily about these events and their feelings with others. Since the 1990s, emotion sharing has been studied systematically. But most of these studies took general life events as backgrounds, and they aimed at the adults. The studies based on moral events and aiming at children are rare. In view of the specialty of moral events and children's developmental characteristics, this study is going to study children's emotion sharing after moral events, in hope of providing materials for the related fields of psychology.In this study, we took 102 children of 6,8 and 10 years old as subjects, wrote moral scenery stories which were quite suited to children's daily life ,and by means of interview asked the subjects to response. The validity of the stories applied in the study were ensured by psychology majors, and the subjects' ages were based on the pre-investigation. Four scenery stories were made up. After listening to each story, the subjects were required to response under both general project and role project, sharing emotion both with parents and with friends.The results of this study: children's emotion sharing possibility declines as their ages increase. Children incline to share their emotion more after listening to just moral events than unjust ones. In further analysis ,we found that the difference between just and unjust moral events appeared among 6-year-old children and among 8-year-old children, but no difference among 10-year-old children. Differences between gender, story contents and types of project were not found. |
