TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Adults' descriptions of a situation can influence children's appraisal, feelings, and subsequent psychological functions
JO  - Child development
A1  - Qu, Li
A1  - Lim, Zhao M. T.
SP  - 1550
EP  - 1563
VL  - 87
IS  - 5
N2  - This study examined how an adult's descriptions of a situation could influence children's appraisal, feelings, and subsequent psychological functions. After baseline measures, 81 middle-class Singaporean kindergarten children (Mage  = 5.6 years, SD = 0.6) were exposed to an ambiguous accident and provided with positive, negative, or no descriptions of the accident. Children's appraisal of the experience, feelings of pleasantness, motivation to play a new game, confidence in playing the new game well, and performance on the new game were measured. The results revealed that the descriptions of the accident influenced children's appraisal, feelings of pleasantness, motivation to play a new game, confidence in playing the new game well, and performance on the new game.<br><br>© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12540
ID  - ref1
ER  -