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Adults' free-form identification of emotions from children's descriptions of their antecedents: a quantitative
1Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
50 adult subjects identified resultant emotions for 28 children's statements of antecedents to emotion in an open-ended task. Responses were scored along the dimensions of evaluation and activation by the Dictionary of Affect in Language, and a priori expectations with respect to evaluation (happy, proud, comfortable > sad, afraid, guilty, angry) and activation (sad, comfortable < angry, happy, proud, afraid, guilty) were confirmed. The importance of a dimensional approach to the study of emotion is highlighted in the discussion.