Emotional Stroop Test With Pictures of Faces With Primary School Children Cover Image

Eмоционален Струп тест с лица при деца в начална училищна възраст
Emotional Stroop Test With Pictures of Faces With Primary School Children

Author(s): Evelina Bogdanova, Maria Atanassova-Trifonova, Jordanka Lalova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Clinical psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Emotional Stroop test; basic emotions; executive functions; late childhood; early adolescence.

Summary/Abstract: The present study explores the pictorial emotional Strup test with children of typical development from three age groups. The objective is to explore the factors that influence the processes of selective attention and interference of irrelevant information in the processing of emotional stimuli by children (N=161) in the age period 7-12 years. The results show that the reaction latency to stimuli with emotional content is significantly shorter than those of emotionally neutral stimuli. A comparison of response latency to emotional stimuli with different valence shows that it is significantly shorter in the case of positive emotions than in the case of negative emotional expressions. The expectation of age differences about decreasing the response latency to stimuli was confirmed, which is associated with the development of executive functions, attention resources and the ability to control motor response, etc.

  • Issue Year: 24/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 143-159
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian