Research On Kindergarten-Primary School Transition Psychological Stress Of 5-6 Year Old Children

Children's perspective is a new topic in the field of education.For a long time,discussion about the transition from preschool to primary school has been controlled by adults,showing a significant positivism paradigm.In the period of transition from preschool to school,we do not pay attention to children's feeling most of time.However,children are the main participants in this period of time,and what is their thinking and feelings.This study research on the transition from preschool to school which base on the children's perspective,and the researcher regards children as main participates in order to manifest the importance of children's experiences as well as feelings and build up children's concept system.Having a great grasp of what question are they most afraid of is so important to improve the transition from preschool to school.This means that this research on the children's stress during the transition from preschool to school can make a huge difference to children and help them adapt new environment in the school.In this research,66 children aged from 5 to 6 years old in three kindergartens in Changchun as main participates,and through semi-structural interview and observation,the researcher made some conclusions:Firstly,95% of children have psychological stress,and just 5% of children do not have psychological stress.This means that,a sheer number of children feel stressed when they are transition from preschool to school.Secondly,researcher analysis the categories of source of psychological stress base on the bottom-up analysis and contract theory,and they are the stress from study,the regulation psychological stress,the teachers psychological stress,the peer psychological stress,the environment psychological stress and the parent psychological stress.The first three categories are the main source of psychological stress,while the last four categories are the less-important source of psychological stress.Thirdly,there are similarities and differences in the psychological stress of children from different kindergartens.Consistency can be observed between the quantitative structure of children's stress,and the qualitative data reveal a strong feature of subjective judgment in general.Finally,the researcher came up with some suggestions,including providing rights for children,paying close attention to the transition from preschool to school,listening to children's voice,regarding on children's feeling of stress,helping children get prepared psychologically,offering psychological support,developing positive qualities and improving the ability to cope with psychological stress.