Zoti’s Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood

Vanessa Lloyd-Esenkaya; Ailsa Russell; Michelle St Clair

doi:10.1111/bjdp.12475

Zoti’s Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood

Vanessa Lloyd-Esenkaya, Ailsa Russell, Michelle St Clair

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187-214
Number of pages	28
Journal	British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Volume	42
Issue number	2
Early online date	7 Feb 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12475
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2024

Funding

This work was supported by a University Research Studentship Award from the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath. The authors are pleased to acknowledge Tayfun Lloyd\u2010Esenkaya for his assistance in collecting data for Pilot Study 3 and to Tsz Lok Ng and Sophie Eden for their assistance in coding the verbal response data in the experimental study. We also extend our gratitude to all the children and adults participating in these studies and to St Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School and We The Curious for allowing us to use their venues for data collection purposes.

Keywords

developmental language disorder
experimental task
language
methods
social understanding
task development

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Developmental Neuroscience

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