A New Look at Children's Understanding of Mind and Emotion: The Case of Prayer

Autor/inn/en	Bamford, Christi; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen
Titel	A New Look at Children's Understanding of Mind and Emotion: The Case of Prayer
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 1, S.78-92 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0016694
Schlagwörter	Children; College Students; Emotional Response; Comprehension; Inferences; Cognitive Processes; Relationship; Communication (Thought Transfer); Religious Factors; Psychological Patterns; Resources; Coping; Religious Education; Knowledge Level + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Collegestudent; Emotionales Verhalten; Verstehen; Verständnis; Inference; Inferenz; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Wechselbeziehung; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Betriebsmittel; Hilfsmittel; Bewältigung; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Wissensbasis
Abstract	Multiple methods were used to examine children's awareness of connections between emotion and prayer. Four-, 6-, and 8-year-olds and adults (N = 100) predicted whether people would pray when feeling different emotions, explained why characters in different situations decided to pray, and predicted whether characters' emotions would change after praying. Four- and 6-year-olds exclusively judged that positive emotions motivate prayer, whereas 8-year-olds and adults most often predicted that negative emotions would cause people to pray and that praying could improve emotions. There was also a significant increase between 4 and 8 years in explaining prayer as motivated by need for assistance, for thanksgiving, and for conversation, as well as for explaining postprayer emotions in relation to God or prayer. Religious background predicted individual differences in reasoning only for 4-year-olds. (Contains 2 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10