Efforts to demonstrate children’s ability to report experiencing mixed emotions have typically used an allocentric approach, asking children to report on emotions of other individuals in response to stories or movie clips demonstrating social themes. In contrast, literature examining children’s personal experiencing and understanding of their own mixed emotions, typified as an egocentric approach, in nonsocial situations remains underdeveloped. The current study examined the development of children’s reported understanding and experience of mixed emotions egocentrically. By examining a nonsocial context, this investigation extends existing gender- and age-related research on expressing egocentric mixed emotion. Using a computerized game with a disappointing wins paradigm, egocentric mixed emotional experience was elicited in 142 children (80 boys, 62 girls) aged 6 to 12 years. Results revealed that age, but not gender, was a statistically significant predictor of expressing egocentric mixed emotion experience and understanding. When studying mixed emotion development in a nonsocial context, gender did not contribute to differences in child reports. A significant positive relationship between egocentric mixed emotion experiencing and understanding also emerged. These findings contribute to our understanding of children’s emotion development and offer future directions for examining the broad domain of nonsocial contexts in youth expression of mixed emotions.

为了证明孩子有能力报告经历的混合情绪，通常使用同心心方法，要求孩子根据表现社会主题的故事或电影剪辑来报告其他人的情绪。相比之下，在非社会情况下，以儿童为中心的方法来研究儿童的个人经历和对自己混合情绪的理解的文献仍不完善。当前的研究以儿童为中心研究了儿童报道的对混合情绪的理解和经验的发展。通过研究非社会背景，这项研究扩展了现有的与性别和年龄相关的表达自我中心混合情绪的研究。使用具有令人失望的胜利范例的电脑游戏，在142名儿童（80名男孩，6至12岁的62名女孩）。结果显示，年龄（而非性别）是表达以自我为中心的混合情感体验和理解的统计显着预测因子。在非社会背景下研究混合情绪发展时，性别并未助长儿童报告的差异。以自我为中心的混合情绪体验与理解之间也存在着显着的正相关关系。这些发现有助于我们对儿童情绪发展的理解，并为检验青年在混合情绪中表达非社会情境的广阔领域提供了未来的方向。在非社会背景下研究混合情绪发展时，性别并未助长儿童报告的差异。以自我为中心的混合情绪体验与理解之间也存在着显着的正相关关系。这些发现有助于我们对儿童情绪发展的理解，并为检验青年在混合情绪中表达非社会情境的广阔领域提供了未来的方向。在非社会背景下研究混合情绪发展时，性别并未助长儿童报告的差异。以自我为中心的混合情绪体验与理解之间也存在着显着的正相关关系。这些发现有助于我们对儿童情绪发展的理解，并为检验青年在混合情绪中表达非社会情境的广阔领域提供了未来的方向。