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The Importance of Both Individual Differences and Dyadic Processes in Children's Emotion Expression
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Applied Developmental Science . 2024 28(2):193-206. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Although children display strong individual differences in emotion expression, they also engage in emotional synchrony or reciprocity with interaction partners. To understand this paradox between trait-like and dyadic influences, the goal of the current study was to investigate children's emotion expression using a Social Relations Model (SRM) approach. Playgroups consisting typically of four same-sex unfamiliar nine-year-old children (N = 202) interacted in a round-robin format (6 dyads per group). Each dyad completed two 5-minute tasks, a challenging frustration task and a cooperative planning task. Observers coded children's emotions during the tasks (happy, sad, angry, anxious, neutral) on a second-by-second basis. SRM analyses provided substantial evidence of both the trait-like nature of children's emotion expression (through significant effects for actor variance, multivariate actor-actor correlations, and multivariate intrapersonal correlations) and the dyadic nature of their emotion expression (through significant effects for partner variance, relationship variance, dyadic reciprocity correlations, and multivariate interpersonal correlations).
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1088-8691 and 1532-480X
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Applied Developmental Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1418635
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2022.2163247