Emotion Understanding in Polish Children: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Polish, British, and Italian Children

Emotion understanding (EU) is the capacity to understand the nature, causes, and consequences of the emotional experience of the self and others. The cultural differences and similarities in the development of EU are still not well recognized, especially within Slavic culture and language. We tested...

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VerfasserInnen: Stępień-Nycz, Małgorzata (VerfasserIn) ; Białecka-Pikul, Marta (VerfasserIn) ; Tang, Yulong (VerfasserIn) ; Pons, Francisco (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2023
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Jahr: 2023, Band: 23, Heft: 3/4, Seiten: 437-450
weitere Schlagwörter:B Western cultures (Slavic, Germanic, and Latin)
B emotion understanding
B Children
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Zusammenfassung:Emotion understanding (EU) is the capacity to understand the nature, causes, and consequences of the emotional experience of the self and others. The cultural differences and similarities in the development of EU are still not well recognized, especially within Slavic culture and language. We tested 180 Polish children aged 5–11 years using the Test of Emotion Comprehension and compared their results with data from British and Italian children. We revealed a similar pattern of EU development between the three groups, showing a growing number of the core EU components with age. In all samples, the three difficulty-differentiated clusters of EU components were distinguishable. Some cultural differences were observed only in a few EU components – especially, British and Italian children recognized the cognitively-based individualistic aspect of emotions to a higher degree than Polish children. These results supplement the current knowledge about EU development in children within European cultures.
ISSN:1568-5373
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340171