And how do you get angry? Story designed to promote emotional education

Abstract

The objective of this study is to know the opinion of a group of boys and girls from four to eight years of age about a story to regulate anger. The study has a non-experimental cross-sectional design. For the collection of information, a questionnaire was applied through a google form that was filled out with the opinion of the children with the support of the parents, in a sample of 43 children, 13 children located through Facebook and WhatsApp, 9 children’s students from a Kindergarten in Pachuca de Soto Hidalgo and the rest 21 children from a Kindergarten located in Tlapanaloya, Tequixquiac State of Mexico. These were selected through accidental non-probability or snowball sampling. In the results it is highlighted that 81.40% of the children understood what anger is through the story, 95.35% liked the story, 83.72% of the children liked the backgrounds, 86.05% of the children liked the characters. Likewise, 93% of the children understood the figure of the psychologist as support to regulate emotions, they learned through history what a psychologist is and 88.4% of them validated the strategies proposed as good options to control anger. These findings indicate that the story is an excellent tool for teaching, identifying, and regulating emotions. It is concluded to observe the results and consider the use of stories as support material to educate the emotions.