PMID: 9429773Jan 16, 1998Paper

Talking about feelings: young children's ability to express emotions

Child Abuse & Neglect
M Aldridge, J Wood

Abstract

The aim is to establish which emotion-descriptive language is used by children at different ages. Fifty-six children (aged 5 to 11 years) were presented with a set of plastic playpeople. Scenarios were enacted using the toys to elicit emotion descriptive vocabulary in response to the interviewer's question: How do you think s/he feels about that? Eight adult subjects participated as a control. Children under the age of 8 years have a limited repertoire of labels to describe emotions. Even 11-year-olds are unable to produce vocabulary which expresses emotion concepts described by adults. The implications of our findings for child-police interviews are discussed.

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