Emotion Across Cultures – Comparative Analysis of Emotion-Related Contents in Children's Storybooks

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2024-9-01

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Üzüm, Sabiha
Demircan, Hasibe Özlen

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The present study aims to discover the role of cultural context in predicting emotion-related contents found in children's storybooks written in Türkiye and written in Western countries and translated into Turkish. The study was conducted as a cross-sectional predictive study by collecting data from 21 children's storybooks. In the narratives of the storybooks, the focal themes of emotional incidents as social & personal and attribution of emotions to others and to self were coded deductively as categorical variables. Log-linear analysis was preferred to analyze the data, depending on the categorical nature of all the study variables. The preliminary results indicated that cultural context could be a predictor of both focal themes of emotional incidents and attribution of emotions. In other words, in the preliminary analysis, cultural context significantly predicted emotion-related content in children's storybooks. In this context, it was revealed that Turkish storybooks are more inclined towards depicting collectivist emotion-related content rather than individualist ones, in comparison to Western storybooks.

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Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Conference / Seminar