How children draw, write and tell about portraying mixed emotions in themselves and others children

Burkitt, E. and Watling, D. (2024) How children draw, write and tell about portraying mixed emotions in themselves and others children. The International Journal of Art & Design Education. pp. 1-29. ISSN 1476-8070 (In Press)

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Abstract

Children alter their drawings in multiple ways depending on whether they are drawing happy, sad or mixed happy and sad experiences. However, their explanations of why they may use features to show emotions may be overlooked in interpretation. The present study therefore used the Draw Write Tell paradigm which integrates children’s explanations of feature use to explore children’s drawn representations of mixed emotional experiences. 92 (42 boys, 50 girls) children between the ages of 6-8 years (6 years 4 months- 7 years 11 months, M = 7 years 2 months, SD= 3 months) were recruited on the basis of age from mainstream schools across the South East and South West of the UK. Children were allocated to one of two conditions hearing either a vignette about themselves (n=46, 22 girls) or another age and gender matched child (n=47, 27 girls). Following a mixed emotion presence interview, all children competed the Draw Write Tell process. 11 themes of how children explained how they drew mixed emotion experiences emerged following an exhaustive thematic analysis indicating individual, prosocial and cultural influences on their drawing choices. The importance of using this approach when interpreting children’s drawings of emotional experiences is discussed.

Publication Type: Articles
Uncontrolled Keywords: Mixed emotion, graphing, childhood, drawing, writing, telling
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
L Education > L Education (General)
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general > NX165 Psychological aspects
Divisions: Academic Areas > Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences > Psychology
Research Entities > POWER Centre
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Depositing User: Esther Burkitt
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2024 08:58
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2024 08:58
URI: https://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/7683

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