Preschool Children's Social Network And Its Characteristics

Children's psychological socialization process actually influenced by two kinds of interpersonal interaction, which is characterized by one-way to obey the authority of the constraint relations and cooperation with peers with features of equal relations. They are children and adults. Adults should not only protect the children from dangerous and provide physical and emotional support for children, and children's social interaction, imitate the main objects of study. Peer relations to children's social development and social adaptation play an irreplaceable role. In the process of peer interaction, preschool children put the acquisition of social skills from parents and teachers into practice, individual cognition, emotion and social behavior get development. Preschool children's social network is a range of stable social relations network between preschool children and other individuals, according to the authority of the preschool children's interpersonal binding and collaborative features, which can be divided into adult social relationship networks and peer relationship networks.At present, in the field of preschool education, researchers by using social network analysis method are rare, the research object and content is relatively single, preschool children's individual center network and social support network function research has not been met. Based on those, this research use individual network analysis method to study the characteristics of preschool children's individual center network structure include network scale, network structure, network density and explore different types of social network and the effectiveness of the support. The study found that:Preschool children's adult social relation network scale on average is 3.94, different grade children of adult social relation network scale exist significant differences. The network structure is given priority to with kinship, and kinship adults provide a large amount of material support and emotional support especially parents, but lack of information support and social company.Preschool children's peer relation network size on average is 4, the difference of network scale is not due to factors such as age, grade. Young children's companion is given priority to with the kinship. Peer relationship provide much more society company and material support, but emotional support and information support is less. This suggests that preschool children social support is instrumental, peer relation is vulnerable and variable. Most of children's peer relations are based on the geographical close position, same interests, same hobbies, sharing toys and playing cooperative games. The identity of preschool children's peer is overlapping, some comrades are both neighbors and classmates. The average size of preschool children's overall social network is 8, which is less than high school and college students'. According to the social network density and related analysis results of social support, the more close between children and adults, the more material support and emotional support will be provided by adults.