Κατονομάζοντας τα συναισθήματα στην προσχολική ηλικία

Abstract

While many studies have investigated the emotion expression by children, this paper deals with a less studied aspect, how emotions are verbally labelled and described by preschoolers whose first language is Modern Greek. The test that has been developed and used to collect data employs an illustrated story comprised of four scenarios, describing a typical situation for the emotions of fear, anger, happiness and sadness: 58 children were asked to respond to three questions (how the protagonist of the story feels, why (s)he feels so, and whether the participants have been experienced similar feelings). At the present stage of the study, our empirical focus was on the first question only.