中学生における感情理解・意図解釈・対応行動の発達 : 複数の感情生起場面および曖昧な場面

One of the most common reasons behind violent behavior among Junior high school students is the undeveloped ability to understand one's own emotions and the undeveloped ability to interpret the intentions of others' actions. The purpose of this study is to examine these abilities. As a method, junior high school students were asked to write freely on a questionnaire describing their understanding of mixed emotions and ambiguous situations. The results obtained were as follows: (1) The percentage of 3rd graders who responded with positive emotions was higher than that of other grades. The percentage of 2nd graders who responded with negative emotions was higher than that of all the other grades. (2) Regarding the interpretation of the intentions of the other party's actions, a higher percentage of 2nd graders gave hostile answers compared to the other grades. (3) The percentage of 3rd graders who interpreted the actions as coincidental was higher than that of the other grades. As for the response behavior, the percentage of those who responded with aggressive responses decreased as the grade increased, and the percentage of those who responded with non-aggressive responses increased. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of each grade level and to consider how to respond to violent behavior.