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Daria Bukhalenkova1,2, Aleksander Veraksa1,2, Margarita Gavrilova1,2
1Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|April 21, 2022
Summary
Bilingual children show similar emotion understanding to monolingual peers, except for a slight deficit in understanding mental causes of emotions. This may be due to increased time needed for language and cultural immersion.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Linguistics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Bilingualism impacts language, cognitive, and social development.
- Emotion understanding in bilingual children remains understudied.
- Previous research highlights bilingualism's broad developmental effects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate emotion understanding in bilingual versus monolingual children.
- To assess comprehension of external, reflective, and mental causes of emotions.
- To explore potential bilingual effects on nuanced emotional cognition.
Main Methods:
- A cohort of 593 bilingual and monolingual 5-6-year-olds participated.
- The Russian version of the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC) was administered.
- Statistical analyses controlled for age, gender, and non-verbal intelligence.
Main Results:
- No significant differences were found in overall emotion understanding.
- Bilingual and monolingual children showed similar understanding of external and reflective emotion causes.
- Monolingual children exhibited slightly superior understanding of mental causes of emotions.
Conclusions:
- Bilingual children may need more time or exposure to master understanding mental causes of emotions.
- Cultural and linguistic differences in emotion expression may influence development.
- Further research is needed to explore bilingualism's specific impact on theory of mind components.
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