Adults' Free-Form Identification of Emotions from Children's Descriptions of Their Antecedents: A Quantitative Analysis
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
50 adult subjects identified resultant emotions for 28 children's statements of antecedents to emotion in an open-ended task and the importance of a dimensional approach to the study of emotion is highlighted.
Abstract
50 adult subjects identified resultant emotions for 28 children's statements of antecedents to emotion in an open-ended task. Responses were scored along the dimensions of evaluation and activation by the Dictionary of Affect in Language, and a priori expectations with respect to evaluation (happy, proud, comfortable > sad, afraid, guilty, angry) and activation (sad, comfortable < angry, happy, proud, afraid, guilty) were confirmed. The importance of a dimensional approach to the study of emotion is highlighted in the discussion.