Two measures of affect and emotion in Italian children aged 6 to 11 years.
The authors investigated the relation between affective and cognitive processes in fantasy play and emotional understanding of 50 Italian children (25 boys and 25 girls) enrolled in regular elementary school in Northern Italy. Children were administered a standardized play task, the Affect in Play Scale, and answered questions about their understanding of emotions. Consistent, yet modest, relationships were found between dimensions of fantasy play and emotional understanding.
Mazzeschi
Claudia
C
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padova, Italy.
Salcuni
Silvia
S
Parolin
Laura
L
Lis
Adriana
A
D000339:Affect; D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation; D004644:Emotions; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010988:Play and Playthings; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results