Abstract

SOUZA, Ana Beatriz de Mota e; MENDES, Deise Maria Leal Fernandes  and  KAPPLER, Stella Rabello. Children’s emotional understanding: a literature review. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2021, vol.27, n.1, pp. 224-244. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2021v27n1p224-244.

Emotional understanding is a very important skill for the child’s emotional development, and is related to social adjustment and academic adroitness. The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of scholar research on this theme in the last ten years, in order to foster advance in new inquires on this domain. For this purpose, searches were conducted in two databases and, after using the exclusion criteria, 32 articles were selected. A few categories were designed to analyze the studies. A higher concentration of studies was found among European and North American countries, and in children from 0 to 5 years old. It is concluded that there is a need for Brazilian studies on the subject to explore the cultural diversity of the country.

Keywords : Emotions; Emotion comprehension; Socialization of emotions; Emotional development; Emotional expertise.

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