Emotion understanding and cognitive abilities in young children
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In: Learning and Individual Differences, Vol. 26, 08.2013, p. 15-19.
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T1 - Emotion understanding and cognitive abilities in young children
AU - von Salisch, Maria
AU - Hänel, Martha
AU - Freund, Philipp Alexander
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - In order to assess the unique contributions of non-verbal cognitive abilities and attention to young children's emotion understanding, a total of N=. 274 four-to-six-year-old children were tested individually. Hierarchical regression results suggest that the children's non-verbal reasoning abilities, their attention performance test scores, and their kindergarten teachers' attention ratings all predict their emotion understanding above and beyond their age and their receptive language skills. When the children's non-verbal cognitive ability was included as a predictor in the model, attention (in either performance or teacher rating) did not explain any additional variance in their emotion understanding. The discussion centers on relations between non-verbal cognitive abilities and emotion understanding.
AB - In order to assess the unique contributions of non-verbal cognitive abilities and attention to young children's emotion understanding, a total of N=. 274 four-to-six-year-old children were tested individually. Hierarchical regression results suggest that the children's non-verbal reasoning abilities, their attention performance test scores, and their kindergarten teachers' attention ratings all predict their emotion understanding above and beyond their age and their receptive language skills. When the children's non-verbal cognitive ability was included as a predictor in the model, attention (in either performance or teacher rating) did not explain any additional variance in their emotion understanding. The discussion centers on relations between non-verbal cognitive abilities and emotion understanding.
KW - Psychology
KW - Attention
KW - Early childhood
KW - Emotion understanding
KW - Language ability
KW - Non-verbal intelligence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878138463&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.04.001
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 26
SP - 15
EP - 19
JO - Learning and Individual Differences
JF - Learning and Individual Differences
SN - 1041-6080
ER -