Uncertain world: How children's curiosity and intolerance of uncertainty relate to their behaviour and emotion under uncertainty.

ABSTRACT: Curiosity and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) are both thought to drive information seeking but may have different affective profiles; curiosity is often associated with positive affective responses to uncertainty and improved learning outcomes, whereas IU is associated with negative affective responses and anxiety. Curiosity and IU have not previously been examined together in children but may both play an important role in understanding how children respond to uncertainty. Our research aimed to examine how individual differences in parent-reported curiosity and IU were associated with behavioural and emotional responses to uncertainty. Children aged 8 to 12 (n = 133) completed a game in which they were presented with an array of buttons on the screen that, when clicked, played neu

SUBMITTER: Ryan ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11905328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature