The article deals with the affectivity of a special category of children with limited intellect. Emotions are vital mechanisms that favour the body’s adaptation to life conditions and situations; it represents one of the most important existing concepts in psychology, found in the context of all psychic functions and physiological activity, and is responsible for the quality of the individual’s adaptation and the type of relationships he establishes with those around him. Preschool childhood is the basic stage of the emotional formation of a personality. At the age of 5-8 they are able to differentiate the emotions of joy, anger, sadness, fear according to schematic images of facial expression, to distinguish the emotion of joy from the emotions of a negative way, to have elementary ideas about the functional relationship between and emotions and strategies to regulate them. Children with borderline intellect have a certain specificity in the development of affectivity and, in particular, of emotions. A confirmatory study of the emotions of students with borderline intellect in primary education was carried out, by administering psychological methods, we analyzed the results and presented some conclusions.