The Study On The Development Of 4-6 Years Old Children's "Theory Of Mind" And Relations Among TOM And Peer Acceptance

Psychological theory plays an important role in children's social behavior,social cognition,individual understanding and social communication.Peer acceptance is an important part of social communication and plays an important role in the process of social adaptation and psychological development of young children.Many studies show that psychological theory is closely related to the degree of individual acceptance by peers.However,there is a complex relationship between the two,so it still needs to be further studied.To investigate the relationship between infant psychological theory and peer acceptance,143 4-6-year-old children from 3 kindergartens in Debao County were tested by peer nomination method.The peer nomination method was used to test the two dimensions of peer acceptance.In order to understand the characteristics of children's peer acceptance,social preference score,social influence score and peer status were used to investigate the development of children's psychological theory by means of test and peer nomination,and the relationship between them was also discussed.The results show that:(1)the psychological theoretical ability of children aged 6 years old increases with the increase of age,and there is significant age difference,and there is no gender,urban and rural differences.(2)there were significant gender differences in peer status distribution among 4 children aged 6 years old,and the proportion of girls was significantly higher than that of boys in the type of neglect,and the proportion of boys was significantly higher than that of girls in the type of rejection.(3)the social preference of 4 children aged 6 years old has age,gender difference and no difference between urban and rural areas.The age difference is that the social preference increases with the increase of age,the gender difference shows that the girls are more popular than the boys,and the girls are more likely to be ignored than the boys.(4)there were significant differences in the total score of psychological theory and its tasks among children with different peer status of 4 years old and 6 years old.(5)the total score of psychological theory and its three tasks were positively correlated with social preference and social influence.(6)the total score of psychological theory,the task of unexpected location has a significant positive predictive effect on social preference,and the total score of psychological theory and the task of unexpected content has significant positive role to the social influence.Based on the research results,the following research recommendations are proposed in this study:(1)as a parent,we should pay attention to the mental state of children and communicate with them more,and the content of conversation can tend to focus on the emotion of children.Psychological activity,etc.(2)Kindergarten teachers should make full use of mixed-age education and organize activities as diverse as possible,mixing ability levels,gender,etc.,for young children to play,especially role games,and encourage children to pretend to play.(2)Kindergarten teachers should make full use of mixed-age education.To enable young children to learn from each other and share their inner thoughts,to provide a relaxed and pleasant environment for young children,and to actively guide young children to carry out interesting social activities.Pretend to play.