The Development Of Children’s Emotion Competence And Its Relationship With Peer Relations Research

Emotion is a kind of important social skills, mainly consists of two parts, emotion understanding and emotion regulation. Children’s emotional socialization is an important aspect of children’s socialization, and emotional ability has an important role in the process of child development, so the development of children’s emotion ability attention by scholars both at home and abroad. With the deepening of the for the children socially in development research, emotional ability and peer relations research has become the focus in the current, however, the relative lack of research on the effects of peer relationship to the emotion competence, therefore, if you can learn more about peer relations from the Angle of another and emotional ability and the relationship between the two dimensions, not only to a certain extent, enrich the theory of children’s social development, can also cause attaches great importance to the early childhood education workers relationships, pay attention to children’s emotional development, promote the healthy growth of children.This study was to investigate the development characteristic of 3-6 years old children’s emotion competence and trend, and discusses the influence of peer relationship to the emotion competence development. A sample of 118 preschool children aged 3-6 years was selected from an ordinary kindergarten in Suzhou city of Jiangsu province, including 55 boys and 63 girls. The sample was from three grade. The children in their first grade at kindergarten (M=33,SD=3,48);the Children in their second grade at kindergarten(M=45,SD=3.69);and the children in their third grade at kindergarten (M=57,SD=3.46). Adopt the situational stories to investigate the development of children’s emotion understanding ability, concrete is divided into seven task:simple emotion understanding、emotion perspective-taking ability、ability of explaining the reason of emotion desire-based emotion understanding、belief-based emotion understanding、mixed emotion understanding、emotional expression rules cognitive level; Using questionnaire method to investigate the characteristics of the development of children’s emotion regulation ability; Then all of them accepted peer relation measure.In study One, explored 3-6 years old children’s emotion understanding ability characteristics and trend of development, the results show that:(1) the 3-6 years old children upon development of emotion understanding ability have a significant age difference, as the growth of the age, young children’s emotion understanding ability raise gradually; There is no gender difference; Also no significant interaction between age and gender. (2) Children identify four basic emotional expression order of them are angry> happy> fear> sad; Young children around the age of four emotion perspective-taking ability and ability of explaining the reason of emotion development rapidly; desire-based emotion understanding development before belief-based emotion understanding,4 years old may be is belief-based emotion understanding development critical period; 5 years of age may be is mixed emotion understanding critical period; Understanding of the development of emotional expression rules at the latest.In study Two, explored 3-6 years old children’s emotion regulation ability characteristics and trend of development, the results show that:(1) the 3-6 years old children in emotion regulation and its various dimensions, age is no significant main effect; gender is significant main effect, there are more boys than girls use negative adjustment strategy; No significant interaction between age and gender. (2) alternative activities is 3-6 years old children the most commonly used way of emotion regulation.In study Three, studied peer relations and emotional competence and the relationship between the two dimensions, the results show that:(1) the relationship between different types of children’s emotion understanding and its task at all levels have different trend of development, popular children in addition to the rules of emotional expression of emotion understanding other task score were higher than other types of children. (2) there is significant gender differences, The girl is more popular than boys. (3) the children of better peer relationship is used more positive emotion regulation strategies, the children of poor peer relations is used more negative emotion regulation strategies. (4) simple emotion understanding> emotion perspective-taking ability and ability of explaining the reason of emotion positively predict children’s peer acceptance level; Vent, against negative predict children’s peer acceptance level. (5) 3-6 years old children’s peer acceptance and understanding ability, emotional competence was significantly positively related, peer acceptance could significantly predict the development of emotion understanding ability and emotional competence.The author made recommendations on the basis of the above study:(1) create rich situations, cultivate children’s emotion competence.(2) attention to children’s needs, establish good peer relations.(3) pay attention to children’s various ability, promote the development of children’s socialization.