Adults' Descriptions of a Situation Can Influence Children's Appraisal, Feelings, and Subsequent Psychological Functions.
Child Dev
; 87(5): 1550-63, 2016 09.
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| ID: mdl-27089833
ABSTRACT
This study examined how an adult's descriptions of a situation could influence children's appraisal, feelings, and subsequent psychological functions. After baseline measures, 81 middle-class Singaporean kindergarten children (Mage = 5.6 years, SD = 0.6) were exposed to an ambiguous accident and provided with positive, negative, or no descriptions of the accident. Children's appraisal of the experience, feelings of pleasantness, motivation to play a new game, confidence in playing the new game well, and performance on the new game were measured. The results revealed that the descriptions of the accident influenced children's appraisal, feelings of pleasantness, motivation to play a new game, confidence in playing the new game well, and performance on the new game.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pensamiento
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Conducta Infantil
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Emociones
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Relaciones Interpersonales
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Motivación
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Child Dev
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article