Wiedza emocjonalna dzieci kończących edukację wczesnoszkolną

Abstract

A study of 120 third-grade pupils has found that the children in carly education have some understanding of emotional causes and physical symptoms of the following emotions experienccd by themselves as well as by others: joy, happiness, fear, sadness, anger and shame. They demonstrate the ability to quite accurately characterize the freąuency of thcir own emotional experiences. The same event may cause different cmotional reactions among children, which is the result of different cognitive proccsses and different individual experiences. Sometimes the interdependent relationships are modified by gender differences: for example, girls are morę likely to feel sad when they have negative relations with their classmates while boys get angry. The examined pupils try their best to handle negative emotions, cspccialiy fear and sadness, and to a lesser extenl anger. The study results show that the children aged 9-10 have already started to use their emotional intelligence to control their behavior and to put their own interpretation on other people’s behavior and on the intcrrclationship between themselves and others.