Research On The Relationship Between Emotion Understanding And Social Behavior Of Preschool Children

The understanding of children’s emotion plays an important role in the process of interpersonal communication and social adaptation of preschool children,which can help children to better develop social development.Unlike previous studies,this study is based on mobile children to explore the relationship between emotional understanding and social behavior of mobile children.In this study,3-6 year old children in a mobile kindergarten in Shijiazhuang,Hebei Province,were selected as the research subjects.A total of 70 children in small,middle and large classes were selected by random sampling.Among them,small-class20,middle-class 25,large-class25.There were 62 effective subjects,including 28 boys and 34 girls,excluding the missing data and other factors.In this study,the children’s emotional understanding was tested and the parental assessment questionnaire for the young children’s social behavior of the participants’ parents was investigated.The children’s emotional understanding test includes four contents: expression recognition,desire emotion understanding,belief emotion understanding and mixed emotion understanding.The parental survey questionnaire was based on Sun Mei Jing’s " the parental assessment questionnaire for the young children’s social behavior ".The results of the investigation can be concluded as follows:1.There is a significant age difference between the expression recognition of mobile children and the total score of emotional understanding.With the increase of age,the emotion understanding ability of the mobile children is improved.There were significant differences between mobile children aged 3 and 4,5 and 6 years old.2.There was a significant difference in the overall score of expression recognition and emotional understanding of mobile children.As the grade increased,the emotional comprehension ability of mobile children improved.There are extremely significant differences between children in small classes,children in middle classes and large classes.3.There is no significant gender difference in migrant children’s emotional comprehension ability.Unlike previous studies,migrant girls’ emotional comprehension is lower than that of mobile boys.4.There is a significant difference in age between pro-social behavior and attack destruction.The pro-social behavior of 4-year-old migrant children is significantly different from that of 5-year-old and 6-year-old children.Attack damage behavior significantly differs between 4 and 5 years old.5.There are significant differences in pro-social behavior and attack destruction behavior at the grade level.Pro-social behavior,attack and disruption behaviors of children in small classes differ significantly from those in middle-class and large-class classes.6.There is a significant correlation between emotional understanding and social behavior of migrant children.There is a significant positive correlation between total scores of emotional understanding in children and the pro-social behavior of social behavior,and a significant negative correlation with aggressive behavior,and a significant positive correlation with shy withdrawal behavior.