The Relation Between Children's Social Perspective Taking And The Sharing Behavior

The study adopted the method of measurement and natural experiment by random sampling of 240 children with four different age stages(children from kindergarten and pupils of grade one.grade two and grade three respectively).Each grade select 60 children, half of them are famale, others are male.The purpose is to examine the relationship between the development of children's social perspective taking and the development of sharing behavior in prosocial behavior.The study mainly involved: 1.The relationship between the development of children's social perspective taking and age and sex.2.The relationship between the development of sharing behavior and age and sex.3.The relationship between children's social perspective taking and it's subtype and sharing behavior.The findings are: 1.social perspective taking are developing at the stage from the children of kindergarten to the pupils of grade one to three with no difference of sex, of which the stage of grade three is a remarkable accelerated period, during the period of kindergarten, there are significant difference between the development of cognitive perspective taking and affective perspective taking, but there are no difference during the pupils of grade one to three.2.the development of children's sharing behavior increase with age with no difference of sex..3.there are developmental stages about children's sharing behavior: (1) during the period of kindergarten, there are no difference between pretending sharing behavior and real sharing behavior.(2)during the pupils of grade one to two, there are difference between pretending sharing behavior and real sharing behavior, (3)during the pupils of grade three, there are no difference between pretending sharing behavior and real sharing behavior.4.the development of social perspective taking, especially cognitive perspective taking have an effect on children's real sharing behavior.