Personal & Social Development·Self-Awareness·meta
Feelings Versus Actions
Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away
Suggested ages 6–8
Evidence of understanding
- emotion regulation development research
- Effects of Age and Gender in Emotion Regulation (PMC 2020)
- expressive control to emotion regulation (PMC)
Assessment prompt
Does Feelings Versus Actions understand that feeling angry, scared, or jealous doesn't mean they have to act on it immediately — that there's a gap between the feeling and what they choose to do next?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.