The Influence Of Interpersonal Relationships Among Preschool Children On Forgiveness: The Moderating Role Of Executive Function

Forgiveness plays an active role in people's mental health so that it gradually becomes a hot topic of social discussion.It means the process of the victim's intension change that victim reduce the negative emotion and behaviors and increase positi've emotions and behaviors retaliation of the offender.Forgiving others can not only bring friendly relationship,but also benefit society.Forgiveness affected by mang kinds of factors,among which cognitive factors and interpersonal factors are particularly important.But these studies were mostly based on the subjects over the age of 9 so these reserchers couldn't completely explain the relationship among cognitive factors,relationship and forgiveness.According that,choosing preschoolers as the subjects for exploring the relationship between interpersonal relationship and forgiveness.In addition,according to the process model,it is easy to find that forgiveness process is relatively complex,not only by the interpersonal relationship to predict,and cognitive factors are very important.For furtherly discussing the model that executive function adjustment of relationship between forgiveness and friendship,desiging three main researches to discuss the above problems.Study 1:In order to explore the effect of interpersonal relationship on forgiveness in preschool children.By complete random experiment with one factor design,randomly selecting 217 preschoolers who aged 3 to 5 and randomly divided them into good friend group(114)and the stranger group(103).The results showed that there is a significant correlation between interpersonal relationship and forgiveness in preschool children(3 years old group,F(1,56)=6.309,p=.015,?p~2=.100;4 years old group,F(1,68)=9.593,p=.003,?p~2=.124;5 years old group,F(1,83)=5.260,p=.024,?p~2=.060).Study 2:Introducing the executive function task to investigate whether the executive function can enhance the relationship between interpersonal relationship and forgiveness in preschool children.By complete random experiment with twe factors design,choosing 382 preschool children as subjects,randomly dividing them into experimental group(206)and control group(176),the results showed:in general,on preschool children tendency of forgiveness,there is a significant interaction between interpersonal and executive function(3 years old group,F(I,106)=6.641,p=.011,?p~2=.036;4 years old,F(1,124)=5.419,p=.022,?p~2=.042).By simple effect analysis,it showed that under the situation of inhibitory operation,the relationship between interpersonal relationship and forgiveness tendency in preschool children was more significant(3 years old group,F(1,106)=22.42,p<.001;4 years old group.F(1,124)=17.45,p<.001;5 years old group,F(1,135)=9.27,p=.003).Study 3:To explore whether different types of executive functional tasks can regulate the impact of pre-school children's interpersonal relationships on forgiveness.By complete random experiment with two factors design,choosing 332 preschool children as the subjects,randomly dividing them into experimental group(160)and control group(144).The results showed the influence of preschool children's interpersonal relationship on forgiveness is positively regulated by different types of executive function(3 years old group,F(1,85)=5.194,p=.028,?p~2=.058;4 years old group,F(1,89)=7.023,p=.010,?p~2=.073;5 years old group,F(1,115)=5.581,p=.00,?p~2=.046).Simple effect analysis showed that in operating emotion executive function condition,pre-school children relationships more positive related of forgiveness tendency(3 years old group,F(1,85)=9.848,p=.003;4 years old group,F(1,89)=20.209,p<.001;5 years old group,F(1,115)?10.661,p=.002).The final conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Preschool children can understand forgiveness from their perspective,and there is a significant positive correlation between interpersonal relationship and forgiveness tendency among preschool children.(2)Under the Day and Night Task,the influence of the interpersonal relationship of 3-4 year old children on the forgiveness is regulated by the executive function.In the case of carrying out the executive function,the preschool children often have a higher level of forgiveness in the situation when the offender is the good friend of the offender.However,the regulatory function of the 5 year old group was not significant.(3)Under the experimental conditions of emotional materials and line materials,the executive function of the 3 age groups was significantly different.These findings provide references for preschool children's interpersonal relationship guidance,executive function training,especially emotional execution function training,and provide guidance for preschool children's forgiveness education and guidance.