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Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
"It tickles in my tummy" is one of the most frequent answers when children are asked to describe what they experience when engaging in risky play. Why do children take risks in spite of the fact that this can be a harmful and even fatal activity? This article aims to explore this issue. Semi-structured interviews of 23 pre-school…
Descriptors: Play, Emotional Response, Interviews, Risk
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Vikan, Arne; Karstad, Silja Berg; Dias, Maria – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
Four-hundred-and-eighty children in the age groups of four and six years, 240 each from Brazil and Norway, were asked how their feelings of anger, sadness and fear were reduced in a recollected episode, to propose emotion regulation strategies for protagonists and to envisage the result of regulation strategies. A majority of even the youngest…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
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Fine, Sarah E.; Izard, Carroll E.; Trentacosta, Christopher J. – Social Development, 2006
We examined individual differences in developmental trajectories of emotion situation knowledge (ESK), at three time points throughout elementary school in a sample of children from economically disadvantaged families. Results showed that ESK and the subscales of joy, fear, anger, shame and interest exhibited positive growth from the first to the…
Descriptors: Cues, Economically Disadvantaged, Individual Differences, Verbal Ability