The Influence Of Peer Acceptance On Children’s Social And Emotional Competence

Social and emotional competence is a person’s ability to manage,regulate,express and understand emotional skills.The development of children’s social and emotional competence is continuously affected by interpersonal relationships from the early stage and even throughout the childhood and adolescent years.As children grow older and communicate with their peers more frequently and close,peers play an increasingly important role in the socialized growth of children.Children’s peer relationship mainly includes peer acceptance at the group level and friendship at the individual level.Previous studies have shown that peer acceptance and friendship are important factors that affect the development of children’s social and emotional competence.In addition,there are some connections and differences between peer acceptance and children’s friendship.Review the existing research,the research on the relationship among peer acceptance,friendship and social and emotional competence is still insufficient.Therefore,this study attempts to investigate the basic situation of children’s social and emotional competence,peer acceptance and friendship quality through questionnaire survey,to explore the specific path of peer acceptance affecting children’s social and emotional competence,and further clarify the relationship among peer acceptance,friendship quality and social and emotional competence,so as to provide reference for improving students’ peer relationship and social and emotional competence for the feasibility of education suggestions.This study used the Peer Nomination,"Friendship Quality Questionnaire" and selftranslated "Social and Emotional Competence Questionnaire" to survey 640 students in grades 6 and 7 in Chengdu and Leshan.The data were analyzed by SPSS and Amos software.The research results are as follows:(1)The overall development of children’s social and emotional competence and friendship quality is good,but the development of each dimension is unbalanced.(2)Children’s social and emotional competence and friendship quality are significantly different in gender and grade.There are significant differences in gender,but no significant differences in grade.(3)Besides the self-management dimension,there are significant differences in the total score and four dimensions of social and emotional competence among children with different types of peer acceptance.There are significant differences in social and emotional competence and dimensions among children of different friendship quality types.(4)Peer acceptance is significantly positively correlated with all dimensions and total scores of social and emotional competence.The dimensions and total scores of friendship quality are significantly positively correlated with all dimensions and total scores of social and emotional competence.Peer acceptance was positively correlated with the total score of friendship quality,conflict and betrayal,companionship and recreation,intimate exchange.(5)Children’s social and emotional competence is positively affected by peer acceptance.Friendship quality has a significant positive impact on children’s social and emotional competence.Friendship quality partially mediates the relationship between peer acceptance and children’s social and emotional competence,self awareness,social awareness and interpersonal skills.Friendship quality completely mediates the relationship between peer acceptance and self-management and responsible decision making.Based on the research results,this study puts forward the following suggestions: first,pay attention to the students’ peer relationship,understand the students’ peer communication;second,pay attention to the gender differences of students’ development,promote the general development of each student;third,pay attention to the grade differences of students’ development,cultivate students’ adaptability to the environment;fourth,carry out targeted education for different types of peer relationship.;fifth,improve the acceptance of students’ peers and establish a united and friendly class;sixth,attach importance to the friendship between students and improve the quality of students’ friendship.