When You Shouldn't Do What You Want to Do: Young Children's Understanding of Desires, Rules, and Emotions

Autor/in	Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen
Titel	When You Shouldn't Do What You Want to Do: Young Children's Understanding of Desires, Rules, and Emotions
Quelle	In: Child Development, 76 (2005) 3, S.713-733 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00873.x
Schlagwörter	Emotional Response; Age Differences; Young Children; Adults; Comprehension; Inhibition; Psychological Patterns; Self Control; Child Development; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionales Verhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Frühe Kindheit; Verstehen; Verständnis; Hemmung; Selbstbeherrschung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	This research investigated 4- through 7-year-olds' and adults' (n=64) concepts about the emotional consequences of desire fulfillment versus desire inhibition in situations where people's desires conflict with prohibitive rules. Results revealed developmental increases in attributing positive or mixed emotions to story characters that make willpower decisions and negative or mixed emotions to characters that transgress. These developmental changes in emotion predictions were accompanied by age-related differences in emotion explanations. Whereas 4- and 5-year-olds largely explained emotions in relation to the characters' goals, 7-year-olds and adults further explained how rules and future consequences influence emotions. Results are discussed in relation to connections among children's psychological, deontic, and future-oriented reasoning about emotions as well as the development of self-control. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10