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[Emotion regulatory processes in evoked play narratives]
Erwin Lemche1, Ilka Lennertz, Claudia Orthmann
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Medizinischen Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden. erwin.lemche@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Praxis Der Kinderpsychologie Und Kinderpsychiatrie
|April 16, 2003
Summary
Evoked play narratives reveal insights into children's emotion regulation and mental representations. These themes correlate with mother-child interactions and behavior problems, offering a novel assessment approach.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
Context:
- Evoked play narratives offer a unique lens into children's internal emotion regulation and mental representations.
- Understanding these processes is crucial for identifying and addressing behavioral issues in early childhood.
Purpose:
- To explore the covariations between emotion themes in evoked play narratives and mother-child interaction.
- To examine the relationship between these emotion themes and child behavior problems.
- To investigate the link between narrative emotion themes and mental representations.
Summary:
- An exploratory study used the MacArthur-method with non-referred children (3-6 years) to analyze emotional, conflictive, and moral themes in play narratives as indicators of emotion regulation.
- Four emotion theme composites were identified: social conflicting, prosocial, antisocial, and conflict solving/understanding.
- These themes showed significant correlations with mental representations of self and parents, and with external measures including dyadic Emotional Availability and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores.
Impact:
- The findings suggest that evoked play narratives can be a valuable tool for assessing children's emotion regulation and mental representations.
- This research supports the potential for validating emotion-regulatory processes using established external measures.
- Future research with improved methodology and larger sample sizes is warranted to further validate these findings.