The Research On Relationship Of4-6Year-old Children’s Emotion Expression And Peer Acceptance

Children social emotional expression is an important part of the children development. With children growing older and their accumulating experience in social development process, the appropriate and suitable emotional expression to the establishment of good peer relationships can promote peer interaction and enhance partner status. But emotions expressed by children often inconsistent with real emotional experience, which will bring a variety of adverse effects of early childhood peer relationships. Way individuals express emotions is diverse, it can be verbal and non verbal. Currently children for emotional expression research focuses on the study of facial expressions, studies on the action, especially the less verbal expression studies, and the most cited reference and research abroad. There are few researches on local children emotion expression acts which are lack of systematic and direct researches to explore the relationship between emotional expression and children’s peer acceptance. The review appeared in a small amount of research on the emotional expression of peer acceptance, mostly focusing on emotional understanding, emotional expression rules, the impact of emotion regulation on research in peer acceptance, and most of them stay in the descriptive level, and focus on theoretical, and the existed researches are lack of empirical way to prove its impact relationships. In this study, the parents of children aged4-6from Chongqing’s Kindergarten as the main object, which extracting two kindergarten in urban and classes for the unit. Select4classes from grade2and5classes from grade3from the two kindergartens. This study attempts to use a systematic qualitative and quantitative behavior of young children to explore emotional expression used, and analyze individual differences in pre-school children with emotional expression, and the relationship between children’s peer acceptance on this basis, the theoretical research on children’s emotional expression be improved, as well as adult how to guide the development of the different characteristics of the children to express themselves appropriately emotions and take appropriate ways to express emotions provide theoretical support and education proposals. The main conclusions of this study are as follows:1. Children emotional expression parent questionnaire assessed11items with the strength of expression, inside and outside of expression, constitutively expressed plus or minus three dimensions. The questionnaire has good reliability and validity which can be used as a tool to measure children’s use of emotional expression.2. children emotional expression differences in demographic variables analyzed: age of children emotional expression will produce different effects; addition, children in the children emotional expression gender difference was not significant; intensity of emotional expression of children in early childhood family structure dimension the significant difference between the two; whether children born alone, the children emotional expression differences in the strength of the more significant aspects of the dimension.3. In the case of removing the effects of age, children between the intensity of emotional expression, and the expression of positive and negative dimensions of expression and social dimensions of preference scores were significantly correlated; in the expression of the inner and outer dimensions associated with social preference was not significant. In this study, the social preferences as a companion measure children status and good fellowship. Children strength of emotional expression, expression of positive and negative dimensions of social preference for children predictive of performance: the strength of early childhood emotional expression, the higher the score the more customary expression peer interaction is not conducive to children, young children do not have good fellowship. Emotional young children inside and outside of social preferences do not predict. Therefore, children up to the strength of the emotions expressed through positive and negative expression on children peer acceptance impact.