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emotioninchildrensart:doyoungchildrenunderstandtheemotionsexpressedin

otherchildrensdrawings?

PlousiaMisailidiandFotiniBonoti

JournalofEarlyChildhoodResearch20086:189

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emotioninchildren’sart

doyoungchildrenunderstandtheemotionsexpressedinotherchildren’sdrawings?

PlousiaMisailidi

UniversityofIoannina,Greece

FotiniBonoti

UniversityofThessaly,Greece

ABSTRACT

Thisstudyexamineddevelopmentalchangesinchildren’sabilityto

understandtheemotionsexpressedinotherchildren’sdrawings.Eighty

participants,ateachoffouragegroups–three,four,?veandsixyears–

werepresentedwithaseriesofchilddrawings,eachexpressingadifferentemotion(happiness,sadness,angerorfear).Alldrawingshadbeen

previouslyratedbyadultjudgesonanemotion-intensityscaleasbeing

goodexemplarsoftheemotionsexamined.Next,participantswereshownpicturesofchildartistseachexpressingoneofthedesignatedemotionsonher/hisfaceandwereinstructedtoidentifytheartistwhocreatedeach

drawing.Theresultsshowedthat:(i)byagethree,childrendemonstratedanunderstandingoftheemotionsexpressedindrawings;(ii)happiness,sadnessandfearweretheemotionsmosteasilyrecognizedbyparticipants.Overall,theseresultsprovidesupportfortheassertionthattheabilitytounderstandtheemotionalmeaningofdrawingsispresentfromthepreschoolyears.

KEYWORDSchildren’sdrawings,aestheticdevelopment,emotion

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