The Experiment On The Development Of Children's Social Perspective-taking Ability

The measure instrument of children's social perspective-taking ability was laid down firstly. On this basis, the study chose 41 first-grade students in primary school and made a research about the general developmental trend of children's perspective-taking ability and the factors that may influence the development of this ability. Results indicated that children of 6-7 years old have owned definite social perspective-taking ability. However, there weren't sexual distinction in the development of children's social perspective-taking ability and it also had no significant difference between the perspective-taking ability of single child and that of non-single child. In the same time, children's perspective-taking ability significantly related to their achievement in Chinese. Psychological activity course also was drawn up and used in children's training. We found that compared with the situation before the discipline, children's social perspective-taking ability have been improved significantly after the discipline. It showed the feasibility of this activity course, so this course can be spread to the instruction in students of the junior years of elementary school.