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CAPELO, Maria Regina Teixeira Ferreira; VARELA, John Miguel Costa  e  SERRANO-DIAZ, Noemí. PERCEPTION, EXPRESSION AND VALUING OF CHILDREN’S EMOTIONS IN PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.137-162.  Epub 28-Maio-2019. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2018v8n2id532.

Emotional education is fundamental for the individual's personal and social adaptation. Objective to adapt a test to assess the capacity to perceive, express and value emotions of Portuguese children in pre-school education. After the semantic, operational, conceptual and items equivalence, the questionnaire was answered by 374 children. The data obtained were compared with external criteria validated by 26 childhood educators. More positive results were found in relation to happiness and sadness in the perception and expression of basic emotions (higher achievements were identified in private schools); the perception and valuing of basic emotions increases according to the child’s age; the feminine gender presents greater performance in the perception and valuing subscale; and significant positive relationships between the subscales under review and the external criteria - adaptation, control, achievement and acceptance, and significant negative correlations between subscales and conflict. The test, although at a developmental stage, contributes to measuring the personal and social adaptation of Portuguese children in preschool

Palavras-chave : Emotional Perception; Emotional Valuing; Assessment of Emotional Perception.

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