TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kumschick, Irina Rosa
A1  - Beck, Luna
A1  - Eid, Michael
A1  - Witte, Georg
A1  - Klann-Delius, Gisela
A1  - Heuser, Isabella
A1  - Steinlein, Rüdiger
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
T1  - READING and FEELING : the effects of a literature-based intervention designed to increase emotional competence in second and third graders
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Emotional competence has an important influence on development in school. We hypothesized that reading and discussing children’s books with emotional content increases children’s emotional competence. To examine this assumption, we developed a literature-based intervention, named READING and FEELING, and tested it on 104 second and third graders in their after-school care center. Children who attended the same care center but did not participate in the emotion-centered literary program formed the control group (n = 104). Our goal was to promote emotional competence and to evaluate the effectiveness of the READING and FEELING program. Emotional competence variables were measured prior to the intervention and 9 weeks later, at the end of the program. Results revealed significant improvements in the emotional vocabulary, explicit emotional knowledge, and recognition of masked feelings. Regarding the treatment effect for detecting masked feelings, we found that boys benefited significantly more than girls. These findings underscore the assumption that children’s literature is an appropriate vehicle to support the development of emotional competence in middle childhood.
KW  - Gefühl
KW  - Intelligenz
KW  - Kinderliteratur
KW  - Kind
KW  - Entwicklung
KW  - Affektive Entwicklung
KW  - Emotionale Kompetenz
KW  - Empirische Ästhetik
KW  - emotional competence
KW  - emotion understanding and knowledge
KW  - literature-based intervention
KW  - afterschool care center
KW  - second and third graders
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46908
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469083
SN  - 1664-1078
N1  - Copyright © 2014 Kumschick, Beck, Eid, Witte, Klann-Delius, Heuser, Steinlein and Menninghaus. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 5
IS  - Art. 1448
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -