1. Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood.
- Author
-
Lloyd‐Esenkaya, Vanessa, Russell, Ailsa J., and St Clair, Michelle C.
- Subjects
- *
SOCIAL media , *MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques , *ART , *QUALITATIVE research , *WORD deafness , *STATISTICAL sampling , *EMOTIONS , *EXPERIMENTAL design , *RESEARCH methodology , *TEST validity , *LANGUAGE disorders , *VERBAL behavior , *CONFLICT management , *LANGUAGE acquisition - Abstract
Current methods used to investigate emotional inference and conflict resolution knowledge are limited in their suitability for use with children with language disorders due to a reliance on language processing. This is problematic, as nearly 8% of the population are estimated to have developmental language disorder (DLD). In this paper, we present 'Zoti's Social Toolkit', a set of animated scenarios that can be used to assess emotion inferencing and conflict resolution knowledge. All animated scenarios contain interpersonal situations centred around a gender‐neutral alien named Zoti. Four studies investigated the face and construct validity of the stimuli. The final stimulus set can be used with children, who may or may not have language difficulties and is openly available for use in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
- Full Text
- View/download PDF