Emotional development progresses through several stages from early childhood to adolescence. In early childhood, emotions are frequent, related to concrete objects, and shift rapidly. By late childhood, emotional expressions become less diffuse and children can express emotions without concrete triggers, though emotions remain contagious. In adolescence, emotions become more complex and abstract, loyalty and compassion expand, and teens develop greater capacity for self-control and consideration of others' feelings.

1. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2. • Emotion derived from Latin word emover which
means stir up.
• Emotion is a stirred up state of an organism.
• Emotion is the product of perception.
• The core of emotion is feeling.
• Emotion may be either positive or negative.
• Humor is positive emotion and anxiety is negative
emotion.
• Emotion may be constructive in nature or
destructive in nature.

3. Characteristics of Emotional Development
Early Childhood
• Emotions are frequent. They express common
emotional expressions like anger, joy, fear etc.
• Emotion is related to concrete objects.
Children need a concrete object for the
occurrence of emotions.

4. • Each emotion is temporary in nature. There is
shift in emotional expression rapidly. If the child
is in an unpleasant mood, he get a chocolate
become happy.
• Children cannot hide their emotion. They does
not bothered the social situation where they
engaged.
• As the child grows the strength of the emotion
varies. Intensity of the emotional expression is
relatively less.

5. • Late Childhood
• Child cannot control their emotional expressions
in social situations. They express their emotion at
the time of the perception.
• Emotional expressions become less diffuse,
random and undifferentiated. The emotion
cannot be spread to other social situations. There
is a mixture of emotional expressions related to a
particular stimulus and cannot be differentiate it.
Eg. Excitement is accompanied by fear

6. • Emotions are expressed in the absence of
concrete objects. In this stage the child
needn,t any physical object to express his
emotions.
• Emotions are most contagious. Because
children are most suggestible and dependence
on others. The emotional expressions he share
to elders.

7. • Cannot hide their emotions.
• As the child grows the
strength and intensity of
the emotion varies.

8. Adolescence
1.Complexity
• An adolescent person has undergone a lot of
stress and strain-ful situations.
• We cannot understand him by his overt
behavior.
• They learn to hide their emotions from others.
• So it is very complex to identify the individual.

9. 2.Development of abstract emotions
• They needn’t any
concrete objects to
express their emotions.
• It is highly individualized
and can’t be identified it
proper root.

10. 3.Emotional feelings are
widened
• The social contacts of an individual are more
widen.
• He is related to classmates, elders and young
people, emotionally attached heros etc. the
influence of all these which sharpen their
emotions.
• They develops an integrity about their past
experiences and future expectations.
• So they become more patient and tolerate any
delay in their life circumstances.

11. 4. Bearing of emotions
• They can tolerate stress
and tensions in various life
situations.
• So they develop a sense of
self control.

12. 5. Capacity of sharing emotions
• They have a tendency to consider others
feelings and share their emotions to others.
• Sharing of emotions reaches its peak at this
stage.
• Satisfication of others is important.
• So they engaged in the activities of others and
take role for others.

13. 6. Loyalty expands
• Their social contact expands to neighbors and
other social organizations.
• So they maintain a loyalty towards others.

14. 7. Realism in emotional experiences
• He entered into the world of reality.
• He becomes aware of his strength and
weakness.
• This awareness reflect in their emotional
expressions.

15. 8. Reviewing hopes and aspirations
• It is period of high expectation for his future.
Some realistically hard-work for it.
• So they feel a positive emotion in it.
• Others engaged in day dreams, fantasy or
remain in illusion.
• Later they became unrealistic.

16. 9. Tolerance of aloneness
• Develop a feeling of aloneness.
• So they like to be alone in homes.

17. 10. Increased compassion
• Develops sympathy & empathy.
• Can enter into his own feelings and appreciate
the feeling of others.