Author, as appears in the article.: Sabater L, Guasch M, Ferré P, Fraga I, Hinojosa JA.

Department: Psicologia

e-ISSN: 1554-3528

URV's Author/s: Guasch Moix, Marc

Keywords: Valence English Emotions Emotional words Dominance Children Arousal Anew Age Affective norms Affective database Adaptation Acquisition emotional words children arousal affective database

Abstract: Most research on the relationship between emotion and language in children relies on the use of words whose affective properties have been assessed by adults. To overcome this limitation, in the current study we introduce SANDchild, the Spanish affective database for children. This dataset reports ratings in the valence and the arousal dimensions for a large corpus of 1406 Spanish words rated by a large sample of 1276 children and adolescents from four different age groups (7, 9, 11 and 13 years old). We observed high inter-rater reliabilities for both valence and arousal in the four age groups. However, some age differences were found. In this sense, ratings for both valence and arousal decreased with age. Furthermore, the youngest children consider more words to be positive than adolescents. We also found sex differences in valence scores since boys gave higher valence ratings than girls, while girls …

Thematic Areas: Psychology, mathematical Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Medicina ii General psychology Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1554-351X

Author's mail: marc.guasch@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-6898-120X

Record's date: 2023-02-22

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01377-5

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Behavior Research Methods. 52 (5): 1939-1950

APA: Sabater L, Guasch M, Ferré P, Fraga I, Hinojosa JA. (2020). Spanish affective normative data for 1,406 words rated by children and adolescents (SANDchild). Behavior Research Methods, 52(5), 1939-1950. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01377-5

Article's DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01377-5

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications