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Title: How Children Learn What Emotions Mean: Development of Emotion Beliefs in Early ChildhoodAbstract:
People’s emotion beliefs play a crucial role in influencing perceptions, actions, and emotional responses. Understanding how emotion beliefs develop is important because these beliefs guide how individuals make sense of their emotional experiences, shape their emotion regulation strategies, and impact their social and psychological well-being. This thesis aims to investigate the development of emotion beliefs in children and how parents teach children about these beliefs. Study One examines the content and structure of 5- to-7-year-old children’s emotion beliefs. Study Two explores how parental beliefs and emotion discourse influence children’s developing emotion beliefs. Study Three adopts a longitudinal approach to examine how these beliefs and parenting practices surrounding these beliefs evolve over time. This research addresses an important gap in the literature by identifying developmental and mechanisms that contribute to children’s understanding of emotions, and their implications for well-being.
Supervisors:
Dr Rachel Low
Associate Professor Mele Taumoepeau
Staff and postgraduate students are cordially invited to attend. There will be an opportunity at the end of the presentation for audience to observe the panel questioning the candidate about the presentation and proposed research, and for audience members themselves to ask questions of the candidate.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
21 Kelburn Parade, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 6012, New Zealand
