THE PECULIARITIES OF AWARENESS OF THEIR OWN EMOTIONS BY SENIOR PRESCHOOLERS

The study object is the process of development of awareness and verbalization of emotions by senior preschoolers as one of the aspects of cognitive component development of their emotional sphere. The concept “awareness of emotions” is considered as a component of emotional intelligence, that is knowledge about own internal states, which is expressed in verbal categories. The data of empirical study of peculiarities of awareness and verbalization of emotional states (“pleasure”, “displeasure”, “joy”, “sadness”, etc.) by children aged 5?7 are discussed