Developmental and Gender Patterns in Social Information Processing: Social Problem-Solving and Social Goals

The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of development and gender in first- through fifth-grade children's (N = 514) social information processing, as well as the role emotion plays in these patterns. Developmental patterns and goal selection have been relatively understudied in past social information processing literature. Videotaped ambiguous provocations were presented in which provocateur's emotion displays were manipulated (two each of happy, angry, and sad); children imagined being the provocateur's victim. Results revealed age and gender differences in children's goal selection and social problem-solving. Provocateur's emotion displays were also found to Influence goal selection and problem-solving in children, further supporting the role of emotion in social information processing.

Name thesis:degree_name

Education Specialist

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Bowersox, April

• Education
• Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/443

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-1446