The Development of Children’s Understanding of Negative Reflexive Social Emotions

Abstract

addresses emotional development as the child's mastering of social representations . . . pertaining to emotions / draws on 2 theoretical frameworks, namely social constructivist approaches to emotions and Vygotsky's theory of the development of higher mental functions [as part of emotional development] / critical features of the theoretical model advanced are illustrated with empirical work deriving from children's (4 to 12 yr-old) acquisition and development of social representations of embarrassment, which is treated as one instance of "negative reflexive social emotions" (guilt, shame and embarrassment) {(PsycINFO} Database Record (c) 2007 {APA,} all rights reserved) (from the chapter)