Children's Colour Use to Portray Themselves and Others with Happy, Sad and Mixed Emotion

Autor/inn/en	Burkitt, Esther; Sheppard, Lisa
Titel	Children's Colour Use to Portray Themselves and Others with Happy, Sad and Mixed Emotion
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology, 34 (2014) 2, S.231-251 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-3410
DOI	10.1080/01443410.2013.785059
Schlagwörter	Children; Emotional Response; Color; Freehand Drawing; Preferences; Interpersonal Relationship; Interpersonal Communication; Elementary School Students; Junior High School Students; Foreign Countries; Vignettes; Self Concept; Interviews; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Emotionales Verhalten; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Drawing; Zeichnen; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	The present study investigated children's colour use in drawing tasks specifying single and mixed emotions. One hundred and eighty children (90 girls and 90 boys) between 4?years 11?months and 8?years 1?month (X?=?6?years 6?month) participated. All children completed two test sessions in counterbalanced order. Session A measured emotional understanding and colour use in relation to a brief story. Children's colour preferences were measured in Session B. Children used colours differentially across the drawing types and varied colour use in relation to depictions of other people and themselves using red and blue when depicting a protagonist with mixed emotions and red when depicting their own experiences of mixed emotion. The findings are discussed in terms of the need for caution when interpreting multiple and singular colour-affect associations in children's drawings and the need to further investigate children's understanding and non-verbal expression of mixed emotion. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10