@article{ref1,
title="Talking about feelings: young children's ability to express emotions",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="1997",
author="Aldridge, M. and Wood, Jenifer",
volume="21",
number="12",
pages="1221-33; discussion 1217",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The aim is to establish which emotion-descriptive language is used by children at different ages. METHOD: Fifty-six children (aged 5 to 11 years) were presented with a set of plastic playpeople. Scenarios were enacted using the toys to elicit emotion descriptive vocabulary in response to the interviewer's question: How do you think s/he feels about that? Eight adult subjects participated as a control. RESULTS: Children under the age of 8 years have a limited repertoire of labels to describe emotions. Even 11-year-olds are unable to produce vocabulary which expresses emotion concepts described by adults. The implications of our findings for child-police interviews are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}