Although being fundamental for both clinical and educational work with children, there is currently no in‐depth research on examining children's emotion awareness and vocabulary in Vietnam. The goal of this exploratory study is to determine the effect of children's gender, grade level, and socioeconomic background on their emotion awareness and vocabulary, and the semantic and grammatical diversity of Vietnamese children's emotional vocabulary. The sample included 264 Vietnamese children (M = 7.80, SD = .97, 43.18% boys) as well as their mothers. Quantitative findings suggested that children in Grade 3 more frequently quoted surprise‐ and anger‐related vocabulary than did those in lower grades. Children's socioeconomic background had a significant effect on both emotion awareness and vocabulary whereas gender did not. Qualitative analysis revealed diverse grammatical types to describe emotions, except idioms, as well as the presence of body‐related emotion vocabulary within children's records. Finally, a high prevalence of emotion words such as “happy” and “sad” was subject to further cross‐cultural review.

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了解越南早期小学儿童的情绪意识和情绪词汇：定量和定性分析

尽管对于儿童的临床和教育工作都是至关重要的，但目前在越南尚无深入的研究来检查儿童的情绪意识和词汇。这项探索性研究的目的是确定儿童的性别，年级和社会经济背景对其情绪意识和词汇的影响，以及越南儿童情绪词汇的语义和语法多样性。样本包括264名越南儿童（M = 7.80，SD= 0.97，占43.18％的男孩）以及他们的母亲。定量研究结果表明，三年级的孩子比低年级的孩子更多地引用与惊奇和愤怒相关的词汇。儿童的社会经济背景对情感意识和词汇都有显着影响，而性别则没有。定性分析表明，除了成语外，各种语法类型可以描述情绪，儿童记录中也存在与身体相关的情绪词汇。最后，情感词（如“快乐”和“悲伤”）的普遍使用还需要进一步的跨文化审查。