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Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Apavaloaie, Loredana
Page, Timothy
Marks, Loren D.

Abstract / Description

This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time with parents enacted significantly less anger and fear. Simultaneous expressions of multiple negative emotions were observed in the narrative responses of these middle childhood-aged Romanian children. While findings should be viewed with caution, owing to the small and homogeneous sample, new directions for future research with this assessment method are indicated.

Keyword(s)

story stems representations negative emotions self-conscious emotions middle-childhood

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Date of first publication

2014-05-28

Journal title

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volume

10

Issue

2

Page numbers

318–335

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

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publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Apavaloaie, L., Page, T., & Marks, L. D. (2014). Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(2), 318–335. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i2.704
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Apavaloaie, Loredana
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Page, Timothy
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Marks, Loren D.
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-21T09:59:07Z
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    2018-11-21T09:59:07Z
  • Date of first publication
    2014-05-28
  • Abstract / Description
    This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time with parents enacted significantly less anger and fear. Simultaneous expressions of multiple negative emotions were observed in the narrative responses of these middle childhood-aged Romanian children. While findings should be viewed with caution, owing to the small and homogeneous sample, new directions for future research with this assessment method are indicated.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Apavaloaie, L., Page, T., & Marks, L. D. (2014). Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(2), 318–335. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i2.704
  • ISSN
    1841-0413
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/889
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1081
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i2.704
  • Keyword(s)
    story stems
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  • Keyword(s)
    representations
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  • Keyword(s)
    negative emotions
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  • Keyword(s)
    self-conscious emotions
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  • Keyword(s)
    middle-childhood
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    2
  • Journal title
    Europe's Journal of Psychology
  • Page numbers
    318–335
  • Volume
    10
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