Year: 2003
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: A study was conducted to see which impact children's emotionality has on encoding social information. Earlier studies have focused on the whole process of social information processing (Crick and Dodge, 1994), especially the cognitive aspects. Lemerise and Arsenio (2000) brought in hypothesis to integrate emotions to this model. Though, there are no previous studies about how emotionality affects social information processing, until now. Children (N=30), age 11 and 12, and their two teachers participated. They completed questionnaires to rate their emotionality and a memory test to measure which type of information (positive, negative or neutral) they remembered. The results confirm that the participants with high emotionality remembered either positive/negative stimuli or neutral, compared to children with low emotionality who didn't focus on any particular stimuli (p <.05).
Author: Susanna Forsberg
Language: Swedish
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W240981070