Children’s emotion understanding is crucial for healthy social and academic development. The behaviors influenced by emotion understanding in childhood have received much attention, but less focus has been placed on factors that may predict individual differences in emotion understanding, the principal issue addressed in the current review. A more thorough understanding of the developmental underpinnings of this skill may allow for better prediction of emotion understanding, and for interventions to improve emotion understanding early in development. Here, we present theoretical arguments for the substantial roles of three aspects of children’s environments in the development of emotion understanding: family expressiveness, discussions about emotions, and language development, and we discuss how these are interrelated. Ultimately, this may aid in predicting the effects of environmental influences on the development of emotion understanding more broadly and the mechanisms by which they do so.
Human Development

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促进早期情绪理解发展的因素：对个体差异的贡献

儿童的情绪理解对于健康的社会和学业发展至关重要。儿童时期受情绪理解影响的行为受到了很多关注，但较少关注可能预测情绪理解个体差异的因素，这是当前审查中解决的主要问题。对该技能的发展基础有更透彻的理解，可以更好地预测情绪理解，并在发育早期进行干预以提高情绪理解。在这里，我们就儿童环境的三个方面在情感理解发展中的重要作用提出理论论据：家庭表达、关于情感的讨论和语言发展，并讨论它们如何相互关联。最终，
人类发展