title: An investigation of concepts and words used by Turkish children and teenagers to define their perceptions regarding events involving emotional situations.
abstract: The present study aimed to determine the concepts and words children and teenagers use to define their perceptions of events that involve emotions. It attempted to identify words that children and teenagers use to express emotions and the differences between children and teenagers in this regard. The study focused on 214 children and adolescents, including 124 students from four primary schools in Eskisehir, Turkey (59 girls and 65 boys) and 90 students from one secondary school and two high schools (39 girls and 51 boys). The students were given a questionnaire that asked 10 questions focusing on three emotional categories (happiness, sadness and fear), two types of self-descriptive adjectives (positive and negative) and two neutral categories (semantically related and semantically unrelated). The questionnaire was developed from a form used by Doost et al. (1999). We concluded that the positive and negative expressions used by both children and teenagers were examined regardless of frequency of use, and the constituents, which were basically detected, were gathered under definite titles.
authors.affiliation: University of Osmangazi, Faculty of Education, Department of Guidance and Counselling Psychology, Eskişehir, Turkey. niluferozabaci@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Nilüfer
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozabaci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey; D014825:Vocabulary