Longitudinal Study Of Children Aged9-12Trust With Peer Relation

Trust was critical, for children’s development of self-awareness, social adaption, and the capacity to form supportive, cooperative, and intimate relationships. Current research on children’s trust and the social relationship is the impact of family environment such as parenting style,parent-child attachment, but the lack of research on children’s peer relationships. Therefore, the present research from the perspective of peer relation,concerned aboutthe influence of peer relationship on the development of children’s trust.The primary school is important for children to build peer relationship which plays a very important role in socialization. Consequently, we investigated the relation between children’s peer relationship and trustduring the primary school.The Cross-sectional results were showed that (1)peer acceptance positively predict the trust of child aged9-12;(2)The moderating effect of age on the relation between trust and peer acceptance is not significant.(3) The moderating effect of gender on the relation between trust and peer acceptance is significant,compared with boys, the moderating effect performat on girls more stronger.The longitudinal study were showed that(4)peer acceptance on Tl significantly predicted child’s trust on T2,trust on T1not significant predicted peer relationship on T2,which indicates that peer relationship is former dependent variable.