3-5 Year-old Children Aggressive Behavior And Self-control, Study The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Strategies

Aggressive behaviors’ development and control is one of the most important research fieldsof developmental psychology. The development of children’s aggressive behaviors can affecttheir personality, moral character, and the attack and violence is becoming an increasinglyserious problem worldwidely, so the researchers and society attaches great importance to therelated reseaches for their important significance, and a series of important progress has beenmade.On the factors of children aggressive behavior, Existing researches have revealed theoccurrence and development of young children’s aggressive behaviors are related to their innerfactors like physiological, cognitive, emotional feelings and outer factors such as socialenvironment. Many studies have shown that as an important performance of children’s cognitiveand emotional development, self-control abilities and emotion regulation abilities are associatedwith children’s aggressive behaviors. In fact, aggressive behavior is a kind of complex behavior,and is not only influenced by single factors. Moreover, emotional regulation strategy is animportant index of emotion regulation ability, the selections and applications of emotionregulation strategies are closely related to children’s self-control which is one kind ofpsychological activities. Therefore, a complicated relationship should be existed amongchildren’s aggressive behaviors, self control abilities and emotion regulation strategies.In this study, we adopted peer nomination and questionnaire survey methods to explore thedevelopment characteristics of3-5years old children’ aggressive behavior and the relationshipamong children’s aggressive behaviors, self-control abilities and emotion regulation strategies,either, these are the specific research questions of this study.236participants from three kindergartens in jinan had been selected, peer nominationmethod is used to investigate young children aggressive behavior, Their parents and teachershave been asked to evaluate the children’s self-control abilities and emotion regulation strategies.The main findings of the study were as follows:1. There were remarkable gender and age differences in3-5years old children aggressivebehavior, Boys showed higher level of physical aggression, verbal aggression, propertyaggression than girls;4years old group showed higher level of physical aggression and propertyaggression than3years old and5years old group,moreover,5years old group showed the lowest level; there were no age and gender differences in children’s verbal aggression and relationalaggression.2. Correlation analysis showed that remarkable negative correlation was existed betweenphysical,property aggression and continence, consciousness, persistence, self-delay ofgratification; In addition to the self-delayed gratification,other dimensions were negativelyrelated to verbal aggression; relational aggression only were related to continence; Regressionanalysis showed that continence, consciousness, persistence can negatively predict physicalaggression and property aggression; continence and self-delay of gratification can negativelypredict verbal aggression.3. Correlation analysis showed that remarkable positive correlation was existed betweenthe use of Vent strategy and physical aggression, verbal aggression, property aggression,relational aggression; physical aggression and verbal aggression were positively correlated toProblem solving strategy; the same relationship between relational aggression, verbal aggressionand Self comfort strategy; Regression analysis showed that the use of Vent strategy canpositively predict all kinds of aggressions.4. Vent strategy worked as the partial intermediary variable between continence,consciousness, persistence, self-delay of gratification and physical aggression; Vent strategyworked as the partial and complete intermediary variable respectively between consciousness,persistence, self-delay of gratification and verbal aggression and property aggression; Ventstrategy worked as the partial intermediary variable between consciousness, persistence andrelational aggression;...