FACTORS INFLUENCING EMOTIONALITY
The Following Factors Are Responsible for the Child''s Emotionality:
1. Fatigue- When the child becomes tired, owing to too little rest, too much excitement, inadequate food for his needs, or other less common causes, he is predisposed to irratability and temper tantrums.
2. Poor Health- Unhealthy children are more emotionally upset and unstable than children with good health.
3. Time of Day- When a child becomes more fatigued at certain times of the day than at others, these times are accompanied by pronounced emotional disturbances.
4. Intelligence- Children with greater
intellect have greater emotional scope than those with lesser intellect.
5. Social Environment- A calm, secure, happy home life results in less emotionality among children as Garrison pointed out:
Children from poor general social level are more emotionally unstable than those who come from good, middle-class homes.
6. Family Relationship- Overprotected children show more nervous tension, while neglected children are more often anti-social and aggressive in their emotional behavior. The oldest child of the family is more emotional than later-born children.
7. Level of Aspiration- While many emotional problems arise because parental expectations are beyond the child''s potentialities and the child is made to feel inadequate by parental criticism or disappoinment, some emotional instability is traceable to the child''s potentialities and child''s own level of aspiration.