Child Peer Conflict Behavior Research

Conflict is one of the social interactions that occure frequently between children. For a long time,we only saw the shadowy pictures of the nature of children's conflicts, and failed to reveal the value of conflict for children's social development. In fact, conflicts owe particular value for the socialization of children.The author conducted a natural observation in a kindergarten and documented the conflict episodes narratively, by combining qualitative andqualitative methods together, The author analysised the developmental tendency and distinct characters of children's conflicts, and summarized the types of conflicts between children. On the basis of this,The author gave some tentative advice for teachers on how to deal with children's conflicts.The author thinks that conflicts between children is a state of mutual resistants which occur between young children and their compeers, conflict is differentiated from aggression greatly. Aggressive behavior is only one of many types of behaviors that may occur in conflict, conflict contains a much larger scope than aggression.Children's conflicts appear in the free play mostly. An entire conflict episode comprises cause, strategy and outcome. Two basic types of causes are: object-oriented conflict and person-oriented conflict. According to children's social-congitive levels,the author proposes three developmental levels of strategies: impulsive-physical strategy, unilateral-coercive strategy and bilateral-reciprocal strategy. The outcomes contain positive outcome, neutral outcome and negative outcome.