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The Development of Children’s Emotion Understanding in Situation That People’s Desires Conflict with Moral Rules

Author: ZhaoXiaoYan
Tutor: WangMeiFang
School: Shandong Normal University
Course: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Keywords: Emotion understanding Desire Ethical rules Conflict
CLC: B844．１
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract

Emotional understanding is an important part of children's theory of mind. Emotional understanding (especially understanding the emotions of others) is not limited to the external form of emotional understanding, desire emotional subjective factors also need to recognize that. In general, the desire to achieve individual will have a positive emotional experience, desire hindered individuals will produce a negative emotional experience. However, the behavior of the individual can not be determined by their own desire, but also by the constraints of social rules such as moral rules, which relates to the children's emotional understanding of the aspirations of the moral rules conflict situation. Research focuses on children's emotional understanding of the aspirations of the moral rules conflict situation in the field of moral emotional judgments and attribution researchers mostly investigated children obedience of the wrongdoer committed story context and pro-social context of emotional understand. Firstly a detailed literature review of research at home and abroad, while the analysis of the problems in the field and, on this basis, this study. 3-7 year-old children were empirical investigation and development characteristics of 3-7 year-old children's emotional understanding of the actors in the different story contexts. Reached the following main conclusions: 1. Development of the development of children's moral judgments and emotional judgment inconsistency exists. Most of the 3-year-old children have been able to make the correct moral judgment of the wrongdoer and obedience, and the age of moral judgment through rate upward trend. However, in the emotional decision task, \2.3-7 years old children understand the emotions of the actors in the context of the conflict story there are age differences. Emotional judgment of the children of the wrongdoer and obedience to follow the \3-year-old children's emotional understanding based primarily on the objective value of behavioral outcomes, 4 and 5-year-old children, according to the personal desire to achieve it or not, the 6,7-year-old children's emotional understanding based on whether the actors to comply with ethical rules. 3.3-7 years old children's emotional understanding of the the different conflicts story situations (committed and pro-social) behavior by generally follow the same development model. However, children judge committed a situational wrongdoer was \Children 4.3-7 years old the wrongdoer and obedience emotions in the context of the story to the conflict to understand there are different models of development. The emotional judgment wrongdoer follow the development model of the \The children judge committed by feel \5 children the emotional intensity of the actors in the story of a simple desire to situational and aspirations of the moral rules conflict story scenarios exist significant differences. Aspirations of children in the context of a simple desire to achieve and the desire hindered by the emotional intensity are significantly higher than the committed and pro-social story context. 6. Emotions of children in different attribution task due to the directional distribution differences. Committed and obedient children expected - attribution task desire directional attributed attendances were significantly higher only for attribution task. Children attribution does not match the results of the direct presentation of desire and emotional relationship, in addition to the desire to orientation, the children more rules directed attributed, to show them about the rules more mature understanding of the emotional impact.

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