Institute of Research in Psychology and Educational sciences (IPSY), University of Louvain, Belgium; and Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.
Psych J. 2021 Feb;10(1):47-61. doi: 10.1002/pchj.409. Epub 2020 Nov 16.
Although being fundamental for both clinical and educational work with children, there is currently no in-depth research on examining children's emotion awareness and vocabulary in Vietnam. The goal of this exploratory study is to determine the effect of children's gender, grade level, and socioeconomic background on their emotion awareness and vocabulary, and the semantic and grammatical diversity of Vietnamese children's emotional vocabulary. The sample included 264 Vietnamese children (M = 7.80, SD = .97, 43.18% boys) as well as their mothers. Quantitative findings suggested that children in Grade 3 more frequently quoted surprise- and anger-related vocabulary than did those in lower grades. Children's socioeconomic background had a significant effect on both emotion awareness and vocabulary whereas gender did not. Qualitative analysis revealed diverse grammatical types to describe emotions, except idioms, as well as the presence of body-related emotion vocabulary within children's records. Finally, a high prevalence of emotion words such as "happy" and "sad" was subject to further cross-cultural review.
尽管儿童情感意识和词汇的研究对于临床和教育工作都至关重要，但目前在越南还没有深入研究儿童情感意识和词汇的相关内容。本探索性研究的目的是确定儿童的性别、年级和社会经济背景对其情感意识和词汇、以及越南儿童情绪词汇的语义和语法多样性的影响。该研究样本包括 264 名越南儿童（M = 7.80，SD =.97，43.18%为男孩）及其母亲。定量研究结果表明，与低年级相比，三年级的儿童更频繁地引用惊讶和愤怒相关的词汇。儿童的社会经济背景对情感意识和词汇都有显著影响，而性别则没有。定性分析显示，除了成语外，儿童的记录中还存在描述情感的多样化语法类型以及与身体相关的情感词汇。最后，需要进一步进行跨文化审查的是，“高兴”和“悲伤”等情绪词的高流行度。
