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On The Relationship Between Development Of4-5Years-old Children’s Theory Of Mind, Language And Aggressive Behavior

Posted on:2015-01-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L H QiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428479846Subject:Mental health education
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Researches in recent years indicated that the aggressive behavior of childrenaged4-5is more obvious. This age group is also the key period of children’s theory ofmind and language development. The purpose of this paper is to research anddevelopment,4-5years old children’s theory of mind,language development andaggressive behavior certain relationship exists between the three factors of sexualbehavior. The methods of literature review, questionnaire survey, measurement andexperimentation are adopted in this research in order to explore the relationship.To comprehend the aggressive behavior,a teacher questionnaire to50childrenaged4-5at several public and private kindergartens are conducted. The levels oflanguage and theory of mind development are tested through the other two experiment.Through the relevant analysis on the experimental data, the following results areobtained:1. There is no significant relationship between the mothers’ educationbackground and the children’s aggressive behavior.2. The verbal comprehension ability of children aged4-5affects theaccomplishment of the false belief task.3. The theory of mind of children aged4-5is significantly related to theaggressive behavior.4. The language development of children aged4-5is significantly related to theaggressive behavior.5. Language plays the role of media between children’s theory of mind and theaggressive behavior.The results show that this study has good reliability and validity, consistent withthe teacher daily observation and analysis. There is a close relationship between thetheory of mind development, language competence and aggressive behavior ofchildren aged4-5. Language plays the role of media between children’s theory ofmind development and the aggressive behavior.
Keywords/Search Tags:theory of mind, language, aggressive behavior
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