A Studying On The Relationships Among Young Children’s Lying Behavior, Emotional Understanding And Executive Function

In traditional moral education of young children, lying behavior is regarded as a kind of immoral behavior. With the development psychology emerging and the theory of mind rising, psychological researchers studied such aspects of young children lying behavior as generation, development,influence factors and so on. They found that lying behavior actually is a kind of social way. To some extent its generation reflects mature psychological level and development of socialization process.Based on the former researchers’ study, this paper takes 3-4 years old children as the objects and adopts adapted "resisting temptation situation" to observe general characteristics of young children’s lying behavior, combining with such tasks as "face recognition", "emotional situation recognition" and "mixed emotional understanding" to measure general characteristics of young children’s emotional understanding. Using tasks of "day-night" and "rabbit-lion" to measure general characteristics of young children’s executive function, and it explores the relation between young children’s lying behavior,emotional understanding and executive function,further describes and predicts emotional, cognitive factors of lying behavior. Its results are as follows.(1)There exist no significant in gender between children lying behavior and emotional understanding ability, level of executive function but age difference: 4-year-old children are lying more than 3-year-old children; The ability of 4-year-old children’s emotional understanding and the level of their executive function are higher than 3-year-old children.(2)Children’s lying behavior is correlated with emotionalal understanding and executive function.(3)Multiple hierarchical regression shows that young children’s emotional understanding and executive function directly and positively predict lying behavior.(4)The mediation analysis shows that young children emotional understanding plays a partial intermediary role in the relation between lying behavior and executive function.