The Development Of Guilt In Young Children And The Relationship Between Guilt And Sharing Behavior

Since the 1990 s,guilt has been widely concerned by researchers.For a long time,a large number of studies have been aimed at distinguishing between guilt and similar shame,and thus deepening the understanding of guilt.Although guilt has been interpreted by researchers from many different perspectives,after extracting the common points in the concept,it is not difficult to find that guilt is the emotion of self-consciousness that produces negative emotional experience after breaking rules or hurting others and tends to apologize to others or take remedial measures.In the past,There are few studies on the law of guilt development of young children and the research methods are relatively simple.Further research is needed to enrich the relevant content.Sharing behavior refers to the behavior that an individual takes out the goods he owns for others to share so as to benefit others.It requires children to sacrifice their own interests and is more altruistic.It is also one of the important goals of social development in early childhood and has far-reaching significance for children's social development.The negative state mitigation model supports guilt that may trigger individual prosocial behavior to alleviate discomfort.Previous studies on the relationship between guilt and sharing behavior mostly focused on adults and older children,while related research on young children was scarce.This study used the situational experiment method to study the development of sputum in the three age groups of 3,4 and 5 years old in early childhood,and to discuss the influence of guilty emotion induction on the sharing performance of middle school children through sharing tasks.Study 1: by using Mishap paradigm,the guilt performance of infants in the experiment was investigated,and the development pattern of infant guilt was obtained.Study 2: using Mishap paradigm,two kinds of guilt emotions were induced respectively,and the control group was set to investigate the influence of guilt emotion on the sharing speed and quantity of middle class children.To summer the above research and the results are as follow:1.The level of guilt increases with age.From 3 to 4 years old,infant guilt presents a slow development trend;from 4 to 5 years old,infant guilt develops rapidly.The age of 4-5 is a critical period for the development of guilt.2.The junior class children are at a low level of guilt,taking the avoidance and withdrawal as the main performance;the middle class children are in the primary adjusted stage of guilt,with limb movement as the main means of adjustment;and the children in the senior class are in the advanced adjustment stage of guilt,and the compensation behavior has reached the highest level of children.3.There was no gender difference in the total score of guilt,but the guilt performance of girls after hurting others is significantly higher than that of boys'.4.The influence of guilt on sharing performance also exists in young children,inducing guilt will promote the individual's sharing behacior.