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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Building blocks through the eyes of others: A training study in visuospatial perspective-taking for improving
Melissa Pearl Caldwell1, Him Cheung2, Tik Sze Carrey Siu3
1Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Abstract:
This study developed a block-building training paradigm to examine whether visuospatial experience in simulating another person's frame of reference can enhance young children's understanding of emotions. Conducted between 2020 and 2022, the study involved 106 children aged 4.5 years from Hong Kong (Mage = 55.30 months; 52% girls; all Hong Kong Chinese). Children in the intervention group outperformed those in the control group in both visuospatial perspective-taking and emotion understanding at posttest. Notably, mediation analyses revealed that the block-building training indirectly improved children's emotion understanding by enhancing their visuospatial perspective-taking. These findings support the idea that psychological perspective-taking may be grounded in embodied simulation processes involved in visuospatial perspective-taking.
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