Interpersonal Relationship Of Emotion And Children's Social Judgments

Social judgment is individual evaluation and inference on the person perception foundation, and its purpose arrive at mastering object accurately by evaluation and inference. Individual's social judgment on other and others' behavior affect the individual to do out the behavior reaction to others and social interaction on a certain degree. A great deal of researches discovered individual' social judgment was influenced not only by character of judge and object of judgment but also emotional relationship between judge and object of judgment. For example, when judge's behavior was uniform, it would influenced their social judgment whether judge like object of judgment or nor. In recent years, the west developmental psychology researchers studied children's social judgment initially, and discovered children's social judgments were influenced by interpersonal emotion. In the present thesis, a comprehensive literature review was made with regard to the social judgment findings. Further analyses were focused on the limitations existing in the prior research. On the basis of these, two related studies were conducted to investigated relationship between interpersonal emotion and social judgment respectively under relevant behavior information of moral and irrelevant behavior information of moral, to investigate consistency and inconsistency in interpersonal emotion influence on children's social judgments, under relevant behavior information of moral and irrelevant behavior information of moral.In study 1, the relationship between interpersonal emotion and social judgments was examined under relevant behavior information of moral. In study 2, the relationship between interpersonal emotion and social judgments was examined under irrelevant behavior information of moral.Subjects were selected from one kindergarten and one elementary school in city of Jinan, participates consisted of 169 children of age 5 to 11.In study 1, developmental trend of 5- to 11- children's social judgments was investigated by individual interviews under consistent and inconsistent behaviorinformational conditions(relevant behavior information of moral), and investigated differences of children's social judgments on liked and disliked peers, under different behavior informational conditions.In study 2, developmental trend of 5- to 11- children's social judgments was investigated by individual interviews under consistent and inconsistent behavior informational conditions (irrelevant behavior information of moral), and investigated differences of children's social judgments on liked and disliked peers, under different behavior informational conditions.The findings in the above two studies are as follows:1. In general, social judgments are more negative for the younger children in some aspects; compare to social judgments in positive consistent informational conditions, children' social judgments are significant positive in positive inconsistent informational conditions. Compare to social judgments in negative consistent informational conditions, children's social judgments are significant positive in negative inconsistent informational conditions. It indicates children could integrate inconsistent information to judge accordingly.2. Compare to other two aged group, difference of 8 years old children's social judgments are most under positive consistent and positive inconsistent behavior information conditions.3. Children's social judgments on liked peers are more positive than social judgments on disliked peers, there is a clear increase with age in influence of interpersonal emotion on social judgments, under relevant behavior information of moral, there is no difference in age in influence of interpersonal emotion on social judgments.4. In general, children's social judgments on liked peers are more positive than social judgments on disliked peers under consistent behavior informational conditions. Such difference is more significant under inconsistent behavior informational conditions.5. In some aspect of...