Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique
This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions....
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| author | Loredana Apavaloaie Timothy Page Loren D. Marks |
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| description | This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time with parents enacted significantly less anger and fear. Simultaneous expressions of multiple negative emotions were observed in the narrative responses of these middle childhood-aged Romanian children. While findings should be viewed with caution, owing to the small and homogeneous sample, new directions for future research with this assessment method are indicated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a66ff42ba66b433ea96588df8e4e7c7c2023-01-02T00:20:23ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyEurope's Journal of Psychology1841-04132014-05-0110231833510.5964/ejop.v10i2.704ejop.v10i2.704Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem TechniqueLoredana Apavaloaie0Timothy Page1Loren D. Marks2Department of Human Services, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USASchool of Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USASchool of Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USAThis research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time with parents enacted significantly less anger and fear. Simultaneous expressions of multiple negative emotions were observed in the narrative responses of these middle childhood-aged Romanian children. While findings should be viewed with caution, owing to the small and homogeneous sample, new directions for future research with this assessment method are indicated.http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/704story stemsrepresentationsnegative emotionsself-conscious emotionsmiddle-childhood |
| spellingShingle | Loredana Apavaloaie Timothy Page Loren D. Marks Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique Europe's Journal of Psychology story stems representations negative emotions self-conscious emotions middle-childhood |
| title | Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique |
| title_full | Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique |
| title_fullStr | Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique |
| title_short | Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique |
| title_sort | romanian children s representations of negative and self conscious emotions in a narrative story stem technique |
| topic | story stems representations negative emotions self-conscious emotions middle-childhood |
| url | http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/704 |
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