A Study Of The Causes And Solving Stratgies For Children's Peer Conflict In The Games

The game which has an important significance and value to the children's growth is children's favorite activity in the kindergarten,and it's also one way for them to carry on social interaction Due to the influence of children's physical and mental development characteristic,there are not only prosocial behavior just like humility,negotiation,cooperation and so on,on the contrary,children often clashed with companion on account of some reason.Companions play an important role in children's growth process,how to correctly treat children's peer conflicts are particularly important.The mid-class children who are in the transitive stage of erasing self-centered develop from alone games to desire playing games with companions compared with children from the reception class.However,they don't have better communication ability and the awareness of the rules and regulations as higher class children in the process of game activities,so it is easy to clash with companions.Based on this,the study chooses mid-class children as the research object.Taking the game activity as the background,the author used a natural observation in a kindergarten of Shenzhen for one semester and noted down the type,gender,time period,causes,resolution strategy,result and duration of peer conflicts.According to the collected 117 valid cases and comprehensively analyze,the types of peer conflicts can be grouped into five categories: insufficient materials,violate the rules,ideas dispute,physical attack,oral attack.The results showed:(1)The pee r conflict behavior was concentrated in the regional game in terms of the game type.(2)The whole game was divided into three stages,and the study found that the children's conflicts main happened in the second stage.(3)O n the gender distribution,the study found that the conflict happened between the same gender children is much higher than the conflicts happened between the different gender children.At the same time male children's conflicts are more higher than the female children's conflicts.(4)About the causes of conflicts,the study found than in general fighting for the game resource was the main reason for the peer conflict.(5)With regard to the resolution strategies of children's peer conflicts,this study found that: children mainly used the neutral strategy and the passive strategy.Finally,according to the characteristics of children's conflicts and the solving strategy's usage in the game activity,the study probed and analysis the influence factors from children,kindergarten,family,social and made some suggestions.