The Study Of The Development Of Guilt In Children And Its Relation With Temperament And Parental Rearing Patterns

This study will select3to5year-old preschool children as the object, and then carry aresearch of the development of their guilt. This research is divided into three parts:First part is to design the development of children guilt rated by teachers’questionnaires.Situational experiment is adopted through theoretical derivation, the opening questionnaires,as well as the exploratory analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis on the investigation of558children’s guilt. At the same time, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire havebeen tested.Second part is to test the developmental characteristics of600children’s guilt based onfirst research.Last part goes with the influence of temperament, parental rearing patterns on earlychildren’s guilt.Based on the above discussion and analysis, the main conclusions were drawn as follow:1. The guilt of preschool teacher evaluation questionnaire has preferable reliability andvalidity, and the questionnaire can be used as the tool of measurement children’s guilt.2. Children’s guilt showed a developmental tendency with the different age, the agefrom4to5years old is the critical period of guilt in developing. This shows no difference ongender3.Temperamental and Parental Rearing Patterns interaction in the development of guilt,the temperament as a moderator variable, Parental Rearing Patterns affect guilt, as thetemperament and different levels of change.