Rizza Mae Pingkian
Jay Lord Manginsay
Keth Kyla Recamadas
Roles of Emotions in Child’s life
1. It adds pleasure to the child’s
experiences.
2. It serve as motivation to action.
3. Emotions may also prove to be a
handicap to the child also.
Unpleasant Emotions – are harmful to the
child’s development
a. Fear b. Anger c. Jealousy
Pleasant Emotions – are helpful and
essential to normal development in the
childhood years
a. Affection
b. Happiness
c. Joy
d. Curiosity
1. Maturation
2. Learning
a. Conditioning or learning by
association
b. Imitation
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Children’s emotions are brief
Children’s emotions are intense
Children’s emotions are transitory
Children’s emotions appear frequently
Children’s emotional response are different
Emotions can be detected by symptoms of behavior
Changes in strength of emotion
Changes in emotional expression
1. Fear – is valuable to a child when not
intense and it serves as a warning of
danger
 Pain
 Threat
 Danger
2. Worry – is an imagery form of fear
- present among older children
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- they are the product of child’s
imagination rather than the direct
response to a stimulus from the child’s
environment
3. Anger – is more frequent emotional
response than fear
- at an early age many children
discover that anger is a good way to seek
attention or to satisfy their desires
4. Jealousy – is a normal response to
actual, supposed, or threatened loss of
affection. It is an outgrowth of anger,
giving rise to an attitude of resentment
directed toward people. The jealous
person feels insecure.
5. Joy, Pleasure, Delight – joy which in it’s
milder form is known as pleasure, delight,
or happiness, is a positive emotion,
because the individual is experiencing it
makes no attemp to remove the situation
giving rise to it.
6. Affection – child’s affection are learned
and not innate. The child learns to have
affection for those who take care of his
bodily needs, who played with him, and
who, in general, are responsible for giving
him pleasure and satisfaction.
7. Curiosity – curiosity starts after the
three months of life. He is interested not
only in materials but in people, their
behaviors, their manners of dressing and
the difference between boys and girls.
Fatigue
Poor health
Time of day
Intelligence
Social environment
Family relationship
Level of aspiration