Same name, different representational levels?: Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children

Ida Torp Roepstorff; Julien Mayor; Sophie S. Havighurst; Natalia Kartushina

doi:10.1017/S0305000923000727

Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children

Ida Torp Roepstorff^*, Julien Mayor, Sophie S. Havighurst, Natalia Kartushina

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Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences

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This study assessed the relationship between preschoolers' directly and indirectly assessed emotion word comprehension. Forty-nine two-to-five-year-old Norwegian children were assessed in a tablet-based 4-alternative forced choice (AFC) task on their comprehension of six basic and six complex emotions using facial expression photographs. Parents reported emotion word comprehension and production of the same words. Parent-reported emotion word production interacted with age to predict preschoolers' performance, with a parent-child alignment only observed for older children. Parent-reported word comprehension did not significantly predict accuracy. The results suggest that, in preschoolers, direct and indirect assessments might address distinct representational levels of emotion word comprehension.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Child Language
Pages (from-to)	1-16
ISSN	0305-0009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000727
Publication status	E-pub / Early view - 8 Feb 2024

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emotion word comprehension
parental reports
preschool children

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Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children. / Roepstorff, Ida Torp; Mayor, Julien; Havighurst, Sophie S. et al.
In: Journal of Child Language, 08.02.2024, p. 1-16.

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