Author, as appears in the article.: Sabater L; Ponari M; Haro J; Fernández-Folgueiras U; Moreno EM; Pozo MA; Ferré P; Hinojosa JA
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Rodriguez, Juan
Keywords: Word acquisition Valence Positive words Emotion-laden words Emotion-label words Age-of-acquisition word acquisition vocabulary valence spanish words positive words objective age language infant facial expressions english-speaking emotion-label words children affective norms
Abstract: Studies investigating how children acquire emotional vocabularies have mainly focused on words that describe feelings or affective states (emotion-label words, e.g., joy) trough subjective assessments of the children’s lexicon reported by their parents or teachers. In the current cross-sectional study, we objectively examined the age of acquisition of words that relate to emotions without explicitly referring to affective states (emotion-laden words, e.g., cake, tomb, rainbow) using a picture naming task. Three hundred and sixty participants belonging to 18 age groups from preschool to adolescence overtly named line drawings corresponding to positive, negative, and neutral concrete nouns. The results of regression and mixed model analyses indicated that positive emotion-laden words are learnt earlier in life. This effect was independent of the contribution of other lexical and semantic factors (familiarity, word frequency, concreteness, word length). It is proposed that the prioritized acquisition of positive emotion-laden words might be the consequence of the communicative style and contextual factors associated with the interaction between children and caregivers. We also discuss the implications of our findings for proposals that highlight the role of language in emotion perception and understanding.
Thematic Areas: Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psicología General psychology Enfermagem Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: juan.haro@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3456-4731 0000-0002-3192-0040
Record's date: 2023-11-19
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-022-03989-w
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Current Psychology. 42 (33): 29280-29290
APA: Sabater L; Ponari M; Haro J; Fernández-Folgueiras U; Moreno EM; Pozo MA; Ferré P; Hinojosa JA (2023). The acquisition of emotion-laden words from childhood to adolescence. Current Psychology, 42(33), 29280-29290. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03989-w
Article's DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03989-w
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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