Spontaneous Representations of Children of the 6th Year of Life about People’s Emotional Experiences

Abstract

The study of children's spontaneous representations about people's experiences is important due to the need to develop their emotional sphere, communication; the development of appropriate diagnostic techniques for preschoolers remains relevant. The article discusses the concepts of "perezhivanie", "representations", including emotional ones. Studies of "emotional intelligence" are mentioned, one of the components of which is the understanding of human emotions. A brief description of the methods for assessing the understanding of human emotions by preschoolers is given. The results of a survey on the pictures of 172 children of the 6th year of life, obtained according to the author's methodology in different years (2002-2019), which are compared with each other using methods of mathematical statistics: children in general correctly determine the content of emotional experiences of people (depicted in the pictures), guided by poses, gestures, etc., sometimes indicating by what signs did they understand this. A number of diagnostic materials are published for the first time.