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- Title
Spanish affective normative data for 1,406 words rated by children and adolescents (SANDchild).
- Authors
Sabater, Lucía; Guasch, M.; Ferré, P.; Fraga, I.; Hinojosa, José A.
- Abstract
Most research on the relationship between emotion and language in children relies on the use of words whose affective properties have been assessed by adults. To overcome this limitation, in the current study we introduce SANDchild, the Spanish affective database for children. This dataset reports ratings in the valence and the arousal dimensions for a large corpus of 1406 Spanish words rated by a large sample of 1276 children and adolescents from four different age groups (7, 9, 11 and 13 years old). We observed high inter-rater reliabilities for both valence and arousal in the four age groups. However, some age differences were found. In this sense, ratings for both valence and arousal decreased with age. Furthermore, the youngest children consider more words to be positive than adolescents. We also found sex differences in valence scores since boys gave higher valence ratings than girls, while girls considered more words to be negative than boys. The norms provided in this database will allow us to further extend our knowledge on the acquisition, development and processing of emotional language from childhood to adolescence. The complete database can be downloaded from https://psico.fcep.urv.cat/exp/files/SANDchild.xlsx.
- Subjects
AGE differences; TEENAGERS; AGE groups; ADOLESCENCE; KNOWLEDGE acquisition (Expert systems); WORD frequency
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2020, Vol 52, Issue 5, p1939
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-020-01377-5