Brinton Bonnie, Spackman Matthew P, Fujiki Martin, Ricks Jenny
Brigham Young University, Graduate Studies, B-380 ASB, Provo, UT 84602-1341, USA.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2007 Jun;50(3):798-811. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/055).
In this study, the authors examined the ability of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typical peers to judge when an experienced emotion should be dissembled (hidden) in accord with social display rules.
Participants included 19 children with SLI and19 children with typical language skills, both groups ranging in age from 7;9 (years;months) to 10;10, with a mean age of 9;1. Children were presented with 10 hypothetical social situations in which a character, Chris, experienced an emotion that should be dissembled for social purposes. The participants' responses were categorized as to whether or not they dissembled or displayed the emotion.
Although the task was difficult for many participants, children with SLI indicated that the experienced emotion should be dissembled significantly less often than did their typical peers. Children in the 2 groups did not significantly differ in their judgments of the social display rules governing these situations.
These results suggested that the children with SLI did not understand the impact of displaying emotion on relationships in the same way as did their typical peers. In this respect, they seemed to lag behind the typical children in their developing emotion knowledge.
在本研究中，作者考察了特定语言障碍（SLI）儿童及其发育正常的同龄人根据社会表达规则判断何时应掩饰（隐藏）一种经历过的情绪的能力。
参与者包括19名患有SLI的儿童和19名语言能力正常的儿童，两组年龄范围均为7岁9个月至10岁10个月，平均年龄为9岁1个月。向儿童呈现10个假设的社会情境，情境中一个叫克里斯的角色经历了一种出于社交目的应予以掩饰的情绪。参与者的反应被归类为是否掩饰或表达了这种情绪。
尽管该任务对许多参与者来说都很困难，但患有SLI的儿童表明，与发育正常的同龄人相比，他们明显更少掩饰经历过的情绪。两组儿童对支配这些情境的社会表达规则的判断没有显著差异。
这些结果表明，患有SLI的儿童对表达情绪对人际关系的影响的理解与发育正常的同龄人不同。在这方面，他们在情绪知识的发展上似乎落后于发育正常的儿童。
