Abstract

BUENO, Viviane Freire  and  MACEDO, Elizeu Coutinho de. Judgment of children's emotional states while listening to music using schematic faces. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2004, vol.6, n.2, pp. 27-36. ISSN 1516-3687.

The present article has appraised the musical emotions in children aged 5 and 6 as well as in 7, 8 and 9 year old students. It has used five schematic faces representative of emotions (happy, angry, fear, sad and scare) as a non-verbal judging instrument of fourteen segments of differently styled popular music. The sampling was formed of 82 participants. Each child had to choose the face correspondent to the emotion felt while listening to each music. The results show that the factors which presented significant influence in the choice of music were the child’s age and  the style of music. Children of all age ranges correctly recognized the five emotions in the music segments played and the rate of correctly identifying such emotions  increased proportionally with the age. The judging standard of the children about emotional states in relation to popular music  was similar to other studies performed classical music.

Keywords : judgment; emotional states; facial expressions; music; child.

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