Recognizing Young Children's Expressive Styles of Emotions (2-6 Years Old)

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

emotional development, expressive behavior of emotion, self-regulation

Abstract

One of the most important core features of emotional development is the ability to manage strong emotions and their expression in a constructive manner. Strengths in the area of emotional competence may help children cope effectively in particular circumstances. Meanwhile, emotional development often receives relatively less recognition as a core emerging capacity in the early childhood years, include in Indonesia. This study focused on expressive behavior of the primary and self-conscious emotion in early childhood life. The survey was conducted using guideline interview and analyzed by descriptive studies. Sample were 120 participants from Bandung, Jakarta, and Medan (60 samples of toddler and 60 samples of preschoolers). The result shows that both categories children mostly express their primary negative affect (i.e. sadness, anger) by crying or whining. For fear and disguise, most children avoiding the stimulus. This should be more concern for preschool children, because they should learn to express their feeling verbally to others and communicate with others can extends child's evaluation of and awareness of own feeling. There is a few contrast in expressive behavior of self-conscious emotion (i.e. shyness, and guilt) between these two children categories. Most of toddler express their negative emotion by avoiding the object or crying. While the preschooler can express their emotion using word (i.e. admitting their mistake or asking for an apology). The awareness of how they appear in the eyes of others is an important emotional resource to early socialization. The contrast ability to express the emotion between toddler and pre-school children are involve multiple emotion-related components that change over time as the child matures and in response to changing environmental interactions. That how the role of caregiver and teacher are important in develop the ability of children's regulation and their expression in a constructive manner.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Laila Qodariah
AU  - Lucia Voni Pebriani Voni Pebriani
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Recognizing Young Children's Expressive Styles of Emotions (2-6 Years Old)
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 261
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.45
DO  - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.45
ID  - Qodariah2016/11
ER  -