Early and Middle Childhood Emotional Development

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    Between the ages of 2 and 6

    Children make huge leaps towards emotional abilities that are referred to as emotional competence.

  • By the age of 3

    Can recognize that self conscious emotions are triggered by self-evaluation.

  • As early as age 3

    Overwhelming guilt is linked to depressive systems.
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    By the ages of 3 to 4

    Children tend to verbalize a variety of strategies that they use for adjusting their emotional renewal to a more comfortable level.
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    Between the ages of 3 and 5

    This time is related to friendly, considerate behavior, constructive responses to disputes with age mates and perspective- taking ability.
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    By the ages of 4 and 5

    Children correctly judge the causes of many basic emotions.
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    Ages 6 to 7

    Children improve their ability to distinguish pride from happiness and surprise.
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    Between the ages of 6 and 12

    The children become more aware of circumstances that are likely to spark mixed emotions, each of which may be positive or negative and may also differ in how severe each are.

  • During early childhood, the three parts of emotional development

    1st- Gain emotional understanding. They are able to express their feelings and respond appropriately to others emotional feelings.
    2nd- They become better at emotional self regulation.
    3rd- They experience self-conscious emotions and empathy.
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    Between ages 8 and 9

    The kids start to realize and understand that pride combines two sources of happiness and joy that can be recognized as accomplishment.

  • By the age of 10

    Children shift adaptively between problem centered coping and emotion centered coping.

  • School aged children

    Experience pride in a new accomplishment and guilt over a transgression even when no adult is present, they also start to understand what mental activity means and they are likely to explain emotion by referring to internal states rather than external events.

  • Children

    They can reconcile contradictory facial and situational clues in figuring out another beings feelings.