Links between global motor and emotion comprehension in toddlers
Objective is to study link between global motor development and emotion comprehension development at the two-year-old children. These two skills strictly linked to the social development were studied until now separately. To answer this objective, a scale of global motor estimating the dexterity, the moving and the speed; and the Test of Emotion Comprehension estimating the recognition of the basic emotions and the comprehension of the impact of external causes on these emotions were administered to 47 two-year-old children in individual signing. The obtained results differ according to the sex of the children: 1) boys’ comprehension of the impact of external causes on emotions is negatively connected to the quality of their movements; girls’ comprehension of the impact of external causes on these emotions is positively connected to their motor dexterity and to the speed of their movements. These results question about the developmental specificity of the global motor and the emotion comprehension, as well as on that of the social development according to the sex.