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Young Children's spontaneous emotion vocabulary during an emotional valence rating task

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Emotional vocabulary development represents a growing field of interest. Studies show that children are able to use emotional terms from the age of two (Izard & Harris, 1995; Michalson & Lewis, 1985). Between 3 and 5 years, children start to name basic emotions such as joy, fear, anger, sadness, surprise, and disgust (Denham, 1998; Harris, 1989). Li and Yu (2015) found that 2–13-year-old children comprehend positive emotion words earlier than negative and neutral ones. This is certainly relate to the fact that valence is an early distinguishing feature in emotion concept acquisition (Nook et al., 2017). If many studies investigated emotion words comprehension, only few studies investigated spontaneous vocabulary young children use to refer to emotions in reaction to emotional and non-emotional stimuli. The present experiment measured the use of emotional vocabulary during an emotional valence rating task of words, pictures, words-pictures combined. More precisely, 178 young French children aged 4-, 5- and 6-years-old were observed while rating stimuli. These ratings were made using a three points emotional valence rating scale (negative, neutral, and positive) based on AEJE scale (Largy, 2018). The 90 words, 90 pictures, 90 words-pictures combined were divided in sets of 15 stimuli. Each child rated all sets of stimuli in separate sessions in random order. Children’s utterances containing emotion words were recorded. The content form of these emotional words produced was analyzed thanks to EMOVAL software (Leveau, Jhean-Larose & Denhière, 2011). EMOVAL is an automatic evaluation the emotional valence and arousal of texts, sentences using a 5656 root-words meta norm in French and in English. First, analyses highlighted that young children use more positive emotion vocabulary compared to negative one. This result is congruent with the positive bias observed while young children rated emotional valence of stimuli (Belmon, Noyer-Martin & Jhean-Larose, 2022; Syssau & Monnier, 2009). Like comprehension of emotional words, the use of positive emotion vocabulary occurs earlier in the development than negative one. Second, it was found that with increasing age, emotion vocabulary became more differentiated and complex. Discussion focused on the understanding of children’s daily emotional language environments, and the implications of these for early educators and teachers.
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hal-03973457 , version 1 (04-02-2023)

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Johanne Belmon, Magali Noyer-Martin, Sandra Jhean-Larose. Young Children's spontaneous emotion vocabulary during an emotional valence rating task. International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2023 (InPACT 2023), Apr 2023, Lisbonne (Portugal), Portugal. ⟨hal-03973457⟩

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