A Development Study Of The Relations Between Children's Beliefs About Aggression And Their Social Behaviors

The beliefs about the aggressive traits which include the original of aggression, the stability of aggressive traits, the normative beliefs about aggression and the expressive or instrumental beliefs about aggression play an central role in children's cognition structure: they do not only regulate the children's understanding and reaction to aggression, but also make great influence to children's socialization.214 students' beliefs of which 79 the first grade,56 the third grade and 79 the fifth grade were examined in this study, and their behaviors were rated by their teacher. Then the relations between such beliefs and their social behavior were explored. The conclusions are as follows:1. For the original and the stability beliefs of the aggression: most children believe that the aggression were shaped by learning and most children's think it is developed by nurtured instead of nature. The beliefs about the stability with time has a negative correlations with the presocial behavior also a positive correlations with the aggressive and withdraw behavior.2. For the normative beliefs about aggression: less children approve the aggressive behaviors and it can make a strong prediction about children's aggressive behavior. There were no gender differences but age differences in this beliefs.3. For the i-e beliefs: the gender and age differences are obvious, girls take more e but boys takes moreâ… beliefs. This beliefs can also predict the behavior and the choice of strategies of behavior.4. The correlation of the stability and the original beliefs are negative, also they for the normative beliefs and i-e beliefs.5. The correlations between the strategies and the behaviors are not significant.