A Study On The Relationship Between Young Children's Emotion Recognition And Peer Relation

We can see that the world of the young children is an emotional world and peer relation is the main social relation for young children. This paper examined the relationship between young children's emotion recognition and peer relation.The paper examined 89 young children's emotion recognition with three experiments: facial expression identification, emotion recognition under story situation and emotion recognition under factual situation. In the third experiment, we also examined young children's empathic ability. Besides, we studied the peer relation among young children with peer nomination. Then the study examined the relationship between young children's emotion recognition and peer relation.On the basis of the experiment research, we observed some children's daily behavior by natural observation to understand the relationship between young children's emotion recognition and peer relation better. As the results show:a) The relationship between young children's emotion recognition and peer relation is obvious. But for the children of different ages, the modes of the relationship are not the same. There is no relationship between children's empathic ability and peer relation.b ) As far as emotion types are concerned, different emotions have different relationship modes with peer relation. The recognition towards happy, sad and fear is not related to peer relation, but the recognition towards angry has a close relationship with peer relation.c) As far as experimental situations are concerned, facial expression identification of age 3 is closed related to peer relation. As the children grow, emotion recognition under situation is more closely related to peer relation.