The Experimental Research On The Development Of Pupils' Altruistic Behavior

Considered to be of significance in children's socialized process, Altruistic Behavior is a particular behavior that happens in the course of people's communication, and its healthy development is an important objective in the course of growth of pupils' moral. This paper expounds its general principles of the behavior so as to provide theoretical and practical evidence for schools' moral education, as well as one of the important subjects for the research of nature and moral. Adopting self-composing story surveys of pupils' altruistic behaviors on the basis of research target of 206 primary school students in Grade2, Grade 4 and Grade 6, this research combines both domestic and foreign research material, investigates and tests the general tendency of pupils' altruistic behavior from three-dimensional way: money, property and honorary. The result of the research show as follow, (1) the development of pupils' altruistic behavior grows with the increase of their ages, and Grade 2 to Grade 4 is the rapid period for the changes. (2) Both male and female pupils' altruistic behaviors abide by the general tendency, but females are of priority to male during the period from Grade 4 to Grade 6, which shows the sex differences. (3) Combining with cognitive ability and partnership jointly, education plays an immense and durable influential role in pupils' altruistic behaviors.