Personal & Social Development Emotional Literacyusually ages 9–11

Mixed and Conflicting Emotions

Understand that people can experience mixed or conflicting emotions at the same time — feeling excited and nervous about starting a new school, or happy for a friend who won but disappointed for yourself

How to tell they’ve got it

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Describe a personal situation where they felt two emotions simultaneously
Explain why mixed feelings are normal and not something to worry about
Identify mixed emotions in a character from a book or film

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Try this together

When your child's best friend gets picked for the team and they don't, can your child explain that they feel happy for their friend AND disappointed for themselves at the same time?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Emotion Vocabularyages 7–9Mixed emotions needs wider vocabulary to describe conflicting feelings

Mild to Strong Emotionsages 7–9Mixed emotions builds on understanding emotion intensity/nuance

Mixed and Conflicting Emotionsthis skill · ages 9–11

Unlocks

Identity and Belonging in Adolescenceages 12–13Advanced emotion regulation skills depends on earlier self-regulation concepts

Difficult Ethical Choicesages 9–11Ethical grey areas benefit from understanding mixed/conflicting emotions

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP4P06low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Culture and Experience Shape Emotionsages 9–11 Emotional Patterns Over Timeages 9–11 Emotions and Decision-Makingages 9–11 Brain Science of Emotionsages 11–12

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