Emotional dialogue as a tool to reduce the effects of social inequality.
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Social-emotional development, dialogue-based intervention, socio-cultural backgrounds, Roma childrenAbstract
Social-emotional knowledge is a basic tool that human beings use to adjust psychologically. Parents’ narrative styles and socio-cultural background are key factors in this developmental process. This study aims to compare socialemotional knowledge in two groups of children from very different socio-cultural environments and to determine to what extent a dialogue-based intervention might improve these skills. 103 preschoolers between the ages of 4 and 5 (42 Roma and 61 non-Roma) were divided into control (N = 49) and experimental group (N = 54). Children were assessed for emotional knowledge, social interaction strategies and language skills before and after the intervention. Teachers implemented a dialogue-based intervention in the classroom. We found major differences prior to the intervention between both groups and significant improvements afterwards in various aspects. Roma children improved their emotional knowledge and non-Roma children improved their knowledge on social interaction strategies. Talking about emotions appears to be a useful tool, which can help compensate for the inequalities caused by underprivileged backgrounds on children’s emotional development.
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