ERIC Number: EJ1363316
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1740-5629
EISSN: EISSN-1740-5610
Self-Recognition and Emotional Knowledge
Lewis, Michael; Minar, Nicholas J.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology, v19 n3 p319-342 2022
Self-recognition emerges during the second year of life and represents the emergence of a reflective self, a metacognition which underlies self-conscious emotions such as embarrassment and shame, perspective taking, and emotional knowledge of others. In a longitudinal study of 171 children, two major questions were explored from an extant database: 1) Do early factors, including IQ, general environmental risk, mother-child attachment interaction, drug exposure, gender, and neonatal risk, relate to self-recognition?; 2) Does self-recognition, along with these earlier factors, predict the child's subsequent emotional knowledge? Consistent with previous data, 39% of children exhibited self-recognition by 18-months and few early factors explored were related to this ability. Moreover, path analysis revealed few effects of the earlier factors predicting self-recognition on children's emotional knowledge. Self-recognition did predict emotional knowledge at 4.5 years, such that children who showed early self-recognition showed greater emotional knowledge. Children from high risk environments also showed lower emotional knowledge. These findings indicate that self-recognition and environmental risk are related to children's later knowledge of emotions.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Perspective Taking, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Neonates, Risk, Databases, Drug Use, Prenatal Influences, Intelligence Quotient, Prediction, Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Correlation, Child Development, Self Concept, Nonverbal Communication
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (DHHS/PHS)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R01DA07109