| Children’s peer relationship includes their friendship and acceptance of each other.Infant friendship is an intimate relationship between two young children who like each other in an emotional,equal and relatively stable manner.Secret information refers to the information that children are only willing to share with certain people.Material resources refer to the items used by children to share with each other.This study examines how young children can infer friendship relationships through the secret sharing behavior and material resource sharing behavior of third parties.This study conducted three experiments on 225 3-6 year old children.In experiment 1,105 preschoolers aged from 40 months to 70 months were selected to explore how sharing different resource types influenced children’s inference of friendship relationships.The Independent variables included age(3-4 years old,4-5 years old,5-6 years old)and shared resource(2 levels: Material Resource and secret information).Dependent variable is how often children choose to share material resources and secret information.The results showed that 3-to 4-year-old children were more likely to be friends of the material resource-sharers than to share secret information.Compared with sharing material resources,5-to 6-year-old children believe that those who share secret information are more likely to be the friends of the sharers.It suggests that the number of people who choose to share secrets increases with age.Children aged 5-6 understand the social significance of sharing secrets better than children aged 3-4 and 3-5.People who choose to share secret information are more likely to be in a friendship relationship,using the act of sharing secrets as a reasonable clue to the friendship.In experiment 2,60 preschoolers aged from 65 months to 70 months were selected to explore how different types of conditions affect children’s inference of friendship relationship.The Independent variables were of the conditional type(two levels: positive secret information-material resources and negative secret information-material resources),the dependent variable was the number of children who chose to share material resources and chose to share secret information.The results showed that 5-to 6-year-old children were more likely to believe that the two parties who shared negative secret information had a friendship relationship than those who shared positive secret information and material resources.In experiment 3,60 preschoolers aged from 65 months to 70 months were selected to explore how four types of resources with different values influenced children’s inference of friendship relationship.In a single-factor intra-trial design,the independent variable was the type of resource with different values(material that the sharers liked,material that the sharers liked,positive secret information,negative secret information).The dependent variable was the number of children at four different levels.The results showed that compared with sharing positive secret information,sharing their favorite items and sharing each other’s favorite items,5-to 6-year-old children thought the person who shared negative secret information was the friend of the sharers.Based on the above research,the following suggestions are proposed: parents should establish a scientific education concept,pay attention to children’s desire to establish friendship,pay attention to children’s need to express secrets,support children’s autonomous sharing and friendship behavior;teachers should pay attention to and support children’s friendship behavior,in In daily activities,pay attention to the guidance of young children’s communication behavior,and pay attention to the presentation of young children’s emotional secrets in communication;kindergartens should pay more attention to the social behavior of young children at different stages,help young children to establish a reasonable view of sharing and friendship,and work with parents to improve children Social adaptability. |
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