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Factors Facilitating Early Emotion Understanding Development: Contributions to Individual Differences.

Marissa Ogren¹, Scott P Johnson¹

¹University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America.

Human Development

|July 26, 2021

Summary

Environmental factors like family expressiveness and language development significantly impact children's emotion understanding. Understanding these influences can help predict and improve this crucial skill early in life.

Keywords:

Emotion development environment individual differences social cognition

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Child Development
Developmental Psychology
Social-Emotional Learning

Background:

Emotion understanding is vital for children's social and academic success.
Previous research has focused on behaviors related to emotion understanding, not its predictors.
Identifying predictors can enhance early prediction and intervention for emotion understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

To review environmental factors influencing the development of children's emotion understanding.
To explore the roles of family expressiveness, emotion discussions, and language development.
To understand the interrelationships between these environmental factors.

Main Methods:

Theoretical review of existing literature.
Analysis of environmental influences on emotion understanding.
Discussion of the interplay between family expressiveness, emotion talk, and language.

Main Results:

Family expressiveness, frequency of emotion discussions, and language development are key environmental predictors.
These factors are interconnected and jointly contribute to emotion understanding.
Environmental influences can be better predicted by examining these combined aspects.

Conclusions:

Environmental factors play a substantial role in shaping children's emotion understanding.
Interventions targeting family expressiveness and language development may improve emotion understanding.
A comprehensive view of environmental influences is necessary for effective prediction and support.