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标题：The ability to experience mixed emotions in children aged 5 to 10 years
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作者：Spasić-Šnele Miljana ; Guberinić Mila
期刊名称：Psihologija
印刷版ISSN：0048-5705
电子版ISSN：1451-9283
出版年度：2022
卷号：55
期号：3
页码：245-267
DOI：10.2298/PSI210311013S
语种：English
出版社：Društvo psihologa Srbije
摘要：The main aim of this study was to examine children’s ability to verbally report experiencing allocentric mixed emotions in 60 children aged 5 to 10 years from three age groups – preschool, second and fourth grade. Five short video-clips from the animated movie “Dumbo”, in which the protagonist experiences mixed emotions, were used as a stimulus in the study, followed by an interview with the children, while their parents completed the Empathy Quotient questionnaire to assess the child’s empathy. The results showed a developmental progression in children’s ability to experience mixed emotions – the fourth-grade students were shown to be more successful compared to the two younger groups. Age was a statistically significant predictor of experiencing mixed emotions, whereas empathy was not. Gender differences in experiencing mixed emotions were not found, but there was a difference in the dynamics of the development of this ability between the genders. Findings were interpreted from a developmental-cognitive perspective, according to which the ability to integrate opposite valence emotions, as two conceptually different representation sets, develops with age.