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Mood self-assessment in children from the age of 7

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Simoës-Perlant, Aurélie
Lemercier, Céline
Pêcher, Christelle
Benintendi-Medjaoued, Sarah

Abstract / Description

The evaluation of emotions is one of the main challenges facing theorists and applied psychology researchers. In children, in order to focus on subjective feelings, psychologists mainly use non-verbal scales that measure both the intensity and valence of the emotions felt. The use of these scales poses a main research questions: What is the children’s knowledge of the emotion presented? In order to properly assess the emotional state of a child, it is first necessary to measure the child’s understanding of the major characteristics of emotion. Secondly, it is important to assess the child’s ability to designate the primary emotion associated with a particular situation, and assess how these emotional situations alters their own assessment of their emotional state. This research aims to know if children from the age of seven to eleven can be emotionally induced and if this induction varies in the lifespan.

Keyword(s)

emotion imagination mood induction emotional vocabulary children development

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Date of first publication

2018-08-31

Journal title

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volume

14

Issue

3

Page numbers

599–620

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

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publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Simoës-Perlant, A., Lemercier, C., Pêcher, C., & Benintendi-Medjaoued, S. (2018). Mood self-assessment in children from the age of 7. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 14(3), 599–620. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i3.1408
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Simoës-Perlant, Aurélie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Lemercier, Céline
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Pêcher, Christelle
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Benintendi-Medjaoued, Sarah
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-21T10:00:26Z
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    2018-11-21T10:00:26Z
  • Date of first publication
    2018-08-31
  • Abstract / Description
    The evaluation of emotions is one of the main challenges facing theorists and applied psychology researchers. In children, in order to focus on subjective feelings, psychologists mainly use non-verbal scales that measure both the intensity and valence of the emotions felt. The use of these scales poses a main research questions: What is the children’s knowledge of the emotion presented? In order to properly assess the emotional state of a child, it is first necessary to measure the child’s understanding of the major characteristics of emotion. Secondly, it is important to assess the child’s ability to designate the primary emotion associated with a particular situation, and assess how these emotional situations alters their own assessment of their emotional state. This research aims to know if children from the age of seven to eleven can be emotionally induced and if this induction varies in the lifespan.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Simoës-Perlant, A., Lemercier, C., Pêcher, C., & Benintendi-Medjaoued, S. (2018). Mood self-assessment in children from the age of 7. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 14(3), 599–620. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i3.1408
  • ISSN
    1841-0413
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1115
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1307
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i3.1408
  • Keyword(s)
    emotion
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  • Keyword(s)
    imagination mood induction
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  • Keyword(s)
    emotional vocabulary
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  • Keyword(s)
    children
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  • Keyword(s)
    development
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Mood self-assessment in children from the age of 7
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    3
  • Journal title
    Europe's Journal of Psychology
  • Page numbers
    599–620
  • Volume
    14
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