Research On Emotion Understanding Of Children With Hearing Disability

Children with hearing disability are a colossal special colony, and they show many behavioral problems such as distrust, obstinacy, impatience and other behavioral issues. Studies showed that the difficulty of emotion understanding is an important reason of all these problems. But present research of emotion understanding mainly based on the western cultural background, which focused on the developmental characteristics of one or more components of emotion understanding of normal children, lacking of overall review of emotion understanding situation of children with hearing disability. Hereby, this research try to explore the situation of Chinese children with hearing disability (kindergarten children, grade one, grade three and grade five) emotion understanding systematically, and carry out effective measures according to the result of research, in expecting for improving the capacity of communication among human beings, strengthening the accommodation of society and life quality, helping them to better return to mainstream society.This research considered that emotion understanding is the understanding of external and mental emotional situation and their processes. It mainly consists of three latitudes and ten components. They are the phase of understanding of external emotion, which consists of three components of facial expressions recognition, emotion situation recognition and the understanding of reminder influence to present emotion; the phase of understanding of mental emotion situation, which mainly consists of three components of the understanding of desire and belief on emotion and emotional display rules; the phase of understanding of reflective emotion, which consists of the understanding of mixed emotion, morality emotion, emotional regulation and emotion cause.This research consists of six interosculant and forwarding sub-researches. Research one firstly constituted children emotion understanding questionnaire in expecting for checking the emotion understanding of children. Then research two explored the developmental characteristics of emotion understanding of normal kindergarten children and normal children of grade one, grade three and grade five using the emotion understanding questionnaire of children, thus offered the foundation for research of emotion understanding of children with hearing disability. Results indicated that the level of emotion understanding of normal children gradually increased with the growth of grade. There were no significant gender differences, and grade as well as gender interaction effect were not remarkable.Research three, four and five respectively examined the developmental characteristics of external emotion understanding, mental emotion understanding and reflective emotion understanding of children with hearing disability. It finally found out that: (1)The level of emotion understanding of children with hearing disability is lower than normal children. (2)The level of emotion understanding improved with the increase of grade. (3)There were significant gender differences in emotion situation recognition of kindergarten children with hearing disability, the scores of boys is prominently higher than that of girls. (4)There were no significant gender differences in emotion understanding except emotion situation recognition. (5)Grade as well as gender interaction effect in the emotion understanding were not remarkable. (6)The level of external emotion understanding and reflective emotion understanding will be significantly influenced by the hearing condition of children's parents.Based on the foregoing researches, research six discussed the effort of the intervention courses to level of emotion understanding of the kindergarten children with hearing disability. The kindergarten children got obvious improvement on external and mental emotion understanding through intervention. The emotion understanding intervention courses is effective and reasonable for improving the level of emotion understanding of the kindergarten children.