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JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 155-172Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02568540709594619
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- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [410-20030950]
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This study explored gendered relations between children's self-perceptions and emotion understanding. Ninety-one children (52 girls, 39 boys; 5-8 years) completed self-report self-perception measures and participated in individual interviews to assess three dimensions of self-understanding (continuity, agency, distinctiveness) and emotion understanding. Significant negative correlations were found between both girls' and boys' physical self-concept and emotion understanding. Content analyses of interview responses showed that for both girls and boys, emotion understanding responses contained greater references to physical and behavioral terms, and their self-agency responses contained more references to the self than others. Positive relations between emotion understanding and self-understanding were significant for girls only. Results are discussed in terms of educational implications.
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