| Self-presentation refers to the process by which individuals attempt to control impressions others form of them, belonging to a kind of cognitive adjustment in the interpersonal interaction. The present study will explore the development of self-presentational strategies and motives in 8-,10-,12-years-old elementary school students, in order to enrich and deepen the researches about self-presentation in developmental fields. Children's different ways of self-evaluation in face of different situations are discussed as self-presentational strategies. Self-presentational motives include pleasing the audience and constructing one's ideal pubic self, and the study about them engages in finding which motive induces self-presentational behavior in elementary school students.Through these experiments, we found: (1) Children's self-evaluations under the anonymous condition decrease with aging.(2)Children's self-presentational strategies change with ages. Under different audience situations, except age 10. age 8 and age 12 use different self-presentational strategies. Under different types of information feedback from audiences, except age 8, age 10 and age 12 use different self-presentational strategies.(3)The viewpoints that elementary school students express are obviously affected by the audience's inclination, so pleasing the audience is their self-presentational motive. However, with aging, the ratios of children who express viewpoints inconsistent with the audience's inclination increase obviously. Part children—boys with 10 and 12 ages appear to own the motive of constructing ideal public self: their viewpoints aren't affected by the audience's inclination.(4)Sex differences in self-presentational strategies exist in children with 8 and 12 ages. Sex differences in self-presentational motives lie in: the ratios of boys who express viewpoints inconsistent with the audience's inclination increase with aging, however, not the ratio of girls.
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