Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children
Emotion knowledge has attracted scientific interest in recent years due to its relevance to children’s adjustment. Although there is some controversy as to its definition and components, the term is often used to describe the set of abilities to process emotional information. We need rigorous tools...
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Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health
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| author | Ana I. Vergara Natalia Alonso-Alberca June Gutiѐrrez David Schultz |
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| description | Emotion knowledge has attracted scientific interest in recent years due to its relevance to children’s adjustment. Although there is some controversy as to its definition and components, the term is often used to describe the set of abilities to process emotional information. We need rigorous tools to assess it in multiple languages and contexts. The Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills-ACES was administered to 255 Spanish 8-to-11-year-old children along with, measures of adjustment and language. The Spanish ACES confirmed its three-factor structure; emotion recognition in faces, behaviours and situational emotional knowledge, and a second-order factor (i.e., overall emotional knowledge). The validity of this Spanish version of ACES was demonstrated in emotion knowledge relating to receptive vocabulary, age, sex and adjustment, with age, language and sex moderating relations between emotion knowledge and adjustment. The Spanish ACES can contribute to a greater understanding of the development of emotion knowledge in Spanish-speaking children; and help evaluate social and emotional intervention programmes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-597430bbb4b34ac09b1f9735a5339dba2022-12-22T06:29:48ZengCentre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional HealthInternational Journal of Emotional Education2073-76292022-11-011426887https://doi.org/10.56300/WHZX6797Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age childrenAna I. Vergara0Natalia Alonso-Alberca1June Gutiѐrrez2David Schultz3University of Basque Country, Guipúzcoa, SpainUniversity of Basque Country, Guipúzcoa, SpainUniversity of Basque Country, Guipúzcoa, SpainUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore USAEmotion knowledge has attracted scientific interest in recent years due to its relevance to children’s adjustment. Although there is some controversy as to its definition and components, the term is often used to describe the set of abilities to process emotional information. We need rigorous tools to assess it in multiple languages and contexts. The Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills-ACES was administered to 255 Spanish 8-to-11-year-old children along with, measures of adjustment and language. The Spanish ACES confirmed its three-factor structure; emotion recognition in faces, behaviours and situational emotional knowledge, and a second-order factor (i.e., overall emotional knowledge). The validity of this Spanish version of ACES was demonstrated in emotion knowledge relating to receptive vocabulary, age, sex and adjustment, with age, language and sex moderating relations between emotion knowledge and adjustment. The Spanish ACES can contribute to a greater understanding of the development of emotion knowledge in Spanish-speaking children; and help evaluate social and emotional intervention programmes. https://doi.org/10.56300/WHZX6797emotion knowledgeschool-aged childrenspanishacesassessment |
| spellingShingle | Ana I. Vergara Natalia Alonso-Alberca June Gutiѐrrez David Schultz Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children International Journal of Emotional Education emotion knowledge school-aged children spanish aces assessment |
| title | Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children |
| title_full | Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children |
| title_fullStr | Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children |
| title_short | Measuring emotional knowledge : assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) with Spanish school-age children |
| title_sort | measuring emotional knowledge assessment of children s emotional skills aces with spanish school age children |
| topic | emotion knowledge school-aged children spanish aces assessment |
| url | https://doi.org/10.56300/WHZX6797 |
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