Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
Infant Behav Dev. 2021 Feb;62:101508. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101508. Epub 2020 Nov 26.
The present study examined the impact of emotional expressiveness in toddlers' environments on their emotion understanding. Primary caregivers of 35 toddlers completed two surveys regarding the family's emotional expressiveness and the primary caregiver's expressivity. Toddlers participated in the Affective Knowledge Test to measure emotion understanding. Toddler emotion understanding related to primary caregiver expressivity, but not family expressiveness. Further, toddler emotion understanding related to primary caregiver Impulse Strength, but not Negative or Positive Emotionality. This suggests that primary caregivers with more impulsive emotional response tendencies may help their children to identify associations between emotional events and reactions.
本研究考察了幼儿环境中的情绪表达对其情绪理解的影响。35 名幼儿的主要照顾者完成了两份关于家庭情绪表达和主要照顾者表达能力的调查问卷。幼儿参加了情感知识测试，以衡量他们的情绪理解能力。幼儿的情绪理解与主要照顾者的表达能力有关，而与家庭表达能力无关。此外，幼儿的情绪理解与主要照顾者的冲动强度有关，而与消极或积极情绪无关。这表明，情绪反应更冲动的主要照顾者可能会帮助孩子识别情绪事件和反应之间的关联。
