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Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28904 Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols Alant, Erna magdelphd@webmail.co.za Dada, Shakila De Klerk, Hester Magdalena Preferred symbols Expected symbols Picture communication symbols (PCS) Graphic symbols Emotion situation knowledge Basic emotions Emotion knowledge Emotions Unexpected symbols UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. Experiencing and expressing emotions is an essential part of psychological well-being. It is for this reason that most graphic symbol sets used in the field of AAC include an array of symbols depicting emotions. However, to date, very limited research has been done on children’s ability to recognise and use these symbols to express feelings within different cultural contexts. The purpose of the current study was to describe and compare Afrikaans and Sepedi speaking grade R children’s choice of graphic symbols when depicting four basic emotions, i.e. happy; sad; afraid; and angry. After ninety participants (44 Afrikaans and 46 Sepedi speaking) passed a pre-assessment task, they were exposed 24 emotions vignettes. Participants had to indicate the intensity the protagonist in the story would experience. The next step was for the participants to choose a graphic symbol from a 16 matrix overlay which they thought best represented the symbol and intensity. The results indicated a significant difference at a 1% level between the two groups’ selection of expected symbols to represent emotions. Afrikaans speaking participants more often chose expected symbols than Sepedi speaking participants to represent different basic emotions. Sepedi speaking participants made use of a larger variety of symbols to represent the emotions. Participants from both language groups most frequently selected expected symbols to represent happy followed by those for angry and afraid with expected symbols for sad selected least frequently. Except for a significant difference at the 1% level for happy no significant differences were present between the intensities selected by the different language groups for the other three basic emotions. No significant differences between the two gender groups’ choices of expected symbols to represent emotions or between the intensities selected by the different gender groups were observed. Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) Unrestricted 2013-09-07T14:26:51Z 2011-10-25 2013-09-07T14:26:51Z 2011-09-08 2011-10-25 2011-10-21 Thesis De Klerk, HM 2011, Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28904 > D11/9/260/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28904 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10212011-084716/ © 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Preferred symbols Expected symbols Picture communication symbols (PCS) Graphic symbols Emotion situation knowledge Basic emotions Emotion knowledge Emotions Unexpected symbols UCTD Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title | Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title_full | Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title_fullStr | Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title_full_unstemmed | Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title_short | Young South African children’s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| title_sort | young south african children s recognition of emotions as depicted by picture communication symbols |
| topic | Preferred symbols Expected symbols Picture communication symbols (PCS) Graphic symbols Emotion situation knowledge Basic emotions Emotion knowledge Emotions Unexpected symbols UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28904 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10212011-084716/ |