The Effects Of Group Membership And Information Provider Intentions On Young Children's Selective Trust

With the rapid development of society and economy,the phenomenon of children being abducted emerges one after another.The study of children’s selective trust is of great significance to prevent children from being abducted.Selective trust is an important ability in children’s personality and social development,which is of great significance to children’s growth and development.Intention to explore group relations and information provider for three and a half years old to five and a half years old children’s selective trust,this study randomly selected a kindergarten in Tianjin,344 small,medium and large infants,the conflict information research paradigm,study in group relations and information providers under the influence of intent,three years old and a half to five and a half years old children is how to choose trust.This study consists of three parts: the first is to explore whether children trust the information provider with positive or negative intentions more when all group members are in-group members or out-group members;The second study was to explore whether children would trust in-group members more or out-group members more when both information providers had positive intentions or negative intentions.The third study is to explore how children make trust choices when group relationship and information provider intention conflict.The results show that:(1)Under the two conditions of the same group membership and different intentions,there is no significant difference in the trust choice of 3-and-a-half-year-old children.4-and-a-half-year-old children only trust the information provider with positive intention under the condition of different intentions outside the group,while 5-and-a-half-year-old children trust the information provider with positive intention more.(2)Under the two conditions of the same intention and different group membership,3-and-a-half-year-old children are more likely to trust group members;4-and-a-half-year-old children only trust the group members more under the condition of negative intention inside and outside the group,and 5-and-a-half-year-old children trust the group members more.(3)Under the condition of conflict between the intention of information provider and group membership,3-and-a-half-year-old children have more trust in out group members with positive intention,while 4-year-old and 5-year-old children have no significant difference in trust between out group members with positive intention and in group members with negative intention.Then the following conclusions are drawn(1)The 3-and-a-half-year-old children can correctly identify groups and make trust choices according to groups.However,it can not correctly identify the intention of the information provider,and can not make trust choice according to the intention.(2)When the group member relationship is not favorable,4-and-a-half-year-old children will take intention factor as the basis of trust choice;When intention factor is not favorable,group membership factor will be used as the basis of trust choice.(3)5-and-a-half-year-old children can make a more rational choice of trust by comprehensively considering intention and group membership.According to the above research conclusions,the following educational suggestions are proposed :(1)pay attention to preschool children’s intention recognition education of others;(2)To encourage children to understand that even close people may have negative intentions,and even strangers may have positive intentions;(3)Selective trust teaching plan for children at different grades.