An Empirical Study On Students' Emotional Comprehension Ability In Middle School

As one of the core components of emotional intelligence, emotion understandingmeans that the individual comprehends and understands the characteristics of emotionas well as its relationship with other psychological activities and behaviors based onemotional information or clues. Emotion understanding plays an impotrant role in theaspects of the individual’s physical and mental health，interpersonal activities, whichhave got more and more attentions from scholars. However, among the currentresearches on emotion understanding，there are still some deifciencies and limitations,mainly as follows: As to the study subjects, it lacks of special groups in other agesexcept for primary school children; in terms of research content, it lacks of specialcircumstance effects and individual factors of emotion understanding; in researchmethods, it lacks of laboratory equipment to confirm the role of emotionunderstanding for the regulating function in emotional event.For the deficiencies of previous studies, this research was to carry out thefollowing: First, designed the”Adolescents Emotion Understanding Questionnaire inConflict Situations" and used this questionnaire to explore the development of highschool students with problems understanding the emotional characteristics in conflictsituations; secondly, selected the emotional dimension of extraversion (E) andneuroti"cism (N) content of Eysenck personality I"nventory which better reflects thepersonality characteristics to explore the individual factors of emotion understandingin conflict situations for students with problems; thirdly, selected the intimatedimension, the emotional expression dimension and the contradictory dimension of"Family Environment Scale" to explore the family environmental factors of emotionunderstanding in conlfict situations for students with problems; Finally, comparedphysiological indexes both of high and low emotion understanding students withproblems in conflict situations to explore the role of regulating function of emotionunderstanding for the subjects under negative emotions.The results showed that:1. The "Adolescents Emotion Understanding Questionnaire in ConflictSituations" met the psychometric standard, and could be used as a tool to investigate or assess the ability of emotion understanding in conlfict situations for high schoolstudents.2.There were flaws of emotion understanding development for middle schoolstudents with problems in conflict situations as follow: low level of emotion reasonunderstanding, hidden emotion understanding, emotion change understanding,emotion rule performance understanding, and comprehension strategies of emotion.3.No correlation between the inner and outer dimensions and high schoolstudents with problems in conflict situations in emotion understanding, theneuroticism dimension had negative prediction.4.Family environments were important for middle school students withproblems in emotion understanding, among which the intimacy between familymembers and the emotional expression had a positive prediction, while thecontradictory nature of the family had a negative prediction.5.The existence of effective regulation of emotion understanding whenproblems faced by students in secondary role in conflict situations, the higheremotional understanding, individuals could better regulate their emotions.