Exploring the role of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in social interactions on preschoolers' emotion labeling.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic people were increasingly obliged to wear facial masks and to reduce the number of people they met in person. In this study, we asked how these changes in social interactions are associated with young children's emotional development, specifically their emotion recognition via the labeling of emotions. Preschoolers labeled emotional facial expressions of adults (Adult Faces Task) and children (Child Faces Task) in fully visible faces. In addition, we assessed children's COVID-19-related experiences (i.e., time spent with people wearing masks, number of contacts without masks) and recorded children's gaze behavior during emotion labeling. We compared different samples of preschoolers (4.00-5.75 years): The data for the no-COVID-19-experience sample

SUBMITTER: Wermelinger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9554629 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature