Research On Guilt Emotion Of 3-6 Year Old Children And Its Enlightenment On Mental Health Education

Guilt refers to the emotional experience generated by an individual who has done something wrong(violating moral principles),or who has actually hurt or intended to hurt others,or who is associated with an incident of injury.It is a negative emotional experience.The study on 3-6 years old children's guilt feelings can promote the healthy development of children's emotions.The study adopts observation method and content analysis method to analyze the event types and external behavior characteristics of guilt feelings from 3-6 years old children.A total of 441 parents of children in basic class(3-4 years old),medium class(4-5 years old)and top class(5-6 years old)were selected to answer the “Children's Emotion Questionnaire(Parental Edition 2017)” to investigate and study the event types and behavioral characteristics of children's guilt.1.By using the method of content analysis,the author classify event types,words,actions and expressions of children's guilt emotion.According to the study,there are 8 main types of events triggered by guilt in 3-6 years old children: damage type,injury type,violating rules type,self-dependent type,pro-social type,study type,evaluation by others type,effect type.From the perspectives of words,actions and expressions,the author analyze the behavior characteristics of 3-6 years old children when the guilt emotion occurs.The results show that when guilt occurs,words characteristic can be prioritized into 8 varieties sorting by frequency of occurrence: apology,silence,shout,explanation,mutter,and inquiry,what's more,avoiding topics and sigh are exclusive for the basic class;when guilt occurs,actions feature can be ranked to 10 types: putting head down,looking at others,doing hand movements,smiling,hug,dodge,and doing nothing,what's more,punching only for the middle class,face-palm and putting out tongue uniquely for the top class;and when guilt occurs,expression characteristic is divided into 7 categories ordered by frequency: tearing,blushing,making a face,appearing a complex expression,pout,indifference,frown for the basic and middle class,and tearing,blushing,making a face,pout,indifference for the top class.2.There is a difference in the duration of 3-6 years old children's guilt feelings.The duration is mainly a few minutes or hours.The duration of the middle and top class is long and the duration of the basic class is short.3.There is a certain correlation between the guilt emotion and morality.There is no significant distinction in the related degree between experiencing guilt and morality for different grades.Through the related research on 3-6 years old children's guilt,the inspiration to children's mental health education is as follows:1.Guiding children to express their guilt appropriately.2.Helping children to repair damaged relationships in time.3.Cultivating children's sense of responsibility consciously.4.Giving affirmation to children's pro-social behavior.5.Teaching young children how to regulate their emotions.