Emotional Understanding and Color-Emotion Associations in Children Aged 7-8 Years

Table 3

Percentages of children who expressed a preference for colors as happy or unhappy.

	Red	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Purple	Pink	White	Brown	Black
Happy
Boys	45.0	31.6	37.5	35.0	73.7	8.3	12.5	13.6	27.8	28.6
Girls	8.3	57.1	50.0	27.3	72.7	91.7	84.6	23.1	0.0	13.3
Unhappy
Boys	55.0	68.4	62.5	65.0	26.3	91.7	87.5	86.4	72.2	71.4
Girls	91.7	42.9	50.0	72.7	27.3	8.3	15.4	76.9	100.0	86.7
𝜒^2	3.14	0.54	0.08	0.002	0.00	20.60	15.71	0.06	2.99	0.46
𝑃	0.076	0.463	0.783	0.969	1.00	<0.001***	<0.001***	0.801	0.084	0.498
Phi	−0.383	0.233	0.125	−0.79	−0.010	0.818	0.710	0.121	−0.386	−0.181

*** 𝑃<0.001.