Kamboukos Dimitra, Ursache Alexandra, Cheng Sabrina, Rodriguez Vanessa, Gelb Gena, Barajas-Gonzalez R Gabriela, Dawson-McClure Spring, Brotman Laurie M
Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10016 USA.
Affect Sci. 2022 Mar 19;3(1):62-68. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00105-w. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Emotion knowledge (EK) is a malleable set of skills that is central to social interactions and school success during early childhood. The current study describes an anti-racist approach to adapting an EK measure that assesses knowledge of facial expressions to be ecologically valid for young children of color attending pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) programs in a large urban school district. This approach involved (1) attending to race/ethnicity in selection of visual stimuli, (2) ensuring appropriate translation and language for administration, and (3) exploring the functioning of the measure within a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse group of children. A total of 235 children (67.4% Latinx, 14.1% non-Latinx Black, 7.1% non-Latinx White, 7.8% Asian, 3.6% another racial/ethnicity) were assessed in English (74%) or Spanish (26%) during the fall of pre-K (mean age = 4.4). Both English and Spanish versions appear to have similar reliability, although accuracy levels were lower when administered in Spanish. No differences in mean accuracy scores were found across racial/ethnic groups or for boys versus girls. This study contributes to the growing literature necessary to advance anti-racist research in affective science.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-022-00105-w.
情绪知识（EK）是一组可塑造的技能，对幼儿期的社交互动和学业成功至关重要。本研究描述了一种反种族主义方法，用于调整一种评估面部表情知识的EK测量方法，使其对在一个大城市学区参加学前班（Pre-K）项目的有色人种幼儿具有生态效度。这种方法包括：（1）在选择视觉刺激时考虑种族/民族；（2）确保测试管理有恰当的翻译和语言；（3）在一个种族、民族和语言多样化的儿童群体中探索该测量方法的功能。在学前班秋季学期，共对235名儿童（67.4%为拉丁裔，14.1%为非拉丁裔黑人，7.1%为非拉丁裔白人，7.8%为亚洲人，3.6%为其他种族/民族）进行了英语（74%）或西班牙语（26%）测试（平均年龄 = 4.4岁）。英语和西班牙语版本似乎具有相似的信度，不过用西班牙语进行测试时准确率较低。在不同种族/民族群体之间或男孩与女孩之间，平均准确率得分没有差异。本研究为推进情感科学中的反种族主义研究所需的不断增长的文献做出了贡献。
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