Psychology – Child Emotions The Link between Inter-Parental Conflict and Health Emotional Development of Children

Abstract

Children start developing their emotions during the infancy stage, which lasts approximately from birth to the age of two years. During this stage, a great deal of initial learning occurs for the child, about their general environment and the people that are in it.1 Much of this learning occurs through interactions with parents and observations of parental relations, who are the first and most prominent figures in a child’s early life.1 Happiness, distress and disgust are amongst the initial emotions to appear in children just a few months after birth. Later on, social emotions appear followed by the emotion of fear between the ages of two and four years. Generally, emotions start to differ as a child begins to mature;