Children's Strategies for Displaying Anger and Sadness: What Works with Whom?.

摘要: This study examined the influence of expressive strategies (i.e., verbal, facial, crying, sulking, and aggressive), emotion type (i.e., anger, sadness), social context (i.e., mother, father, best friend), age (i.e., 7, 10 years), gender on 144 children's expectancies regarding interpersonal responses to their emotional expression. Participants included 72 boys girls, with an average age 8 years 10 months. Results indicate that children expect others respond more positively certain (e.g., verbal, facial) as compared aggression) these vary as a function experienced, context, age, gender. Consistent functionalist approach emotion, findings suggest that, through interaction, learn culturally appropriate for expression facilitate their ability elicit desired response from partners.