The Influence Of Family Intimacy Of 4-6 Years Old Children On Their Peer Relationships: The Mediating Role Of Emotional Regulation

Peer interaction is an important manifestation of children's socialization.For young children,the formation of good peer relationship is a good beginning of the current and future socialization process.The social development of children is affected by the environment.Family environment is the longest environmental system in the process of individual's early socialization development,which has a direct and specific impact on children's mental health and socialization development.Family cohesion as an important part of family environment,play an important role in the process of children's growth.In addition to environmental factors,children's own factors also affect their healthy growth.Emotion is regarded as the main manifestation of individual healthy development,and emotional regulation is one of the indicators to evaluate individual mental health.There are many factors affecting emotional regulation,and family factor is an important one.Therefore,this study combines family,peer and individual,explores the relationship among family cohesion,peer relationship and emotional regulation ability of children,and further explores the influence of family cohesion and emotional regulation ability of children on the development of peer relationship of children,so as to improve the level of children's social development.In this study,266 middle-sized and large class children in a kindergarten in Xi'an were selected as research objects,children,their parents and teachers as test objects,and literature research?test methods and interview method as the main research methods were used to conduct empirical research to investigate family cohesion,peer relationship,characteristics of children's emotional regulation ability and the correlation among them.On this basis,with the mediation of emotional regulation ability,we further investigate the influence of family cohesion on children's peer relationship.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:1.There are no significant differences in the dimensions of social preference and social influence in the peer relationship of 4-6 year-old children in the demographic variables such as sex,age,whether they are only children,family type,etc.There are significant differences in the types of peer relationship in gender and whether they are only children.2.There are significant differences in demographic variables in some dimensions of emotional regulation ability between 4 and 6 years old children:there are significant differences in the dimension of emotional instability between boys and girls;there are significant differences in the emotional adjustment ability of teachers'report and final score in children's age;there are significant differences in family type between the emotional instability dimension reported by parents and the emotional regulation dimension reported by teachers;there are significant differences in the types of peer relationships between the emotional adjustment ability of parents'reports,final scores and teachers' reports;3.There are no significant differences in the dimensions of family cohesion between 4 and 6 years old children in terms of gender,age,whether they are single,family type and peer relationship type.4.There are correlations among family cohesion,peer relationship and emotional regulation ability of children:the cohesion dimension of family cohesion is positively correlated with social preferences,and the adaptability dimension is positively correlated with the type of peer relationship;family cohesion and peer relationship were negatively correlated with emotional instability and positively correlated with emotional regulation.5.Children's emotional regulation ability plays a mediating role between family cohesion and peer relationship:emotional regulation ability partially mediates family cohesion and social preferences,and completely mediates family adaptability and social preferences;emotional regulation ability plays a complete mediating role between family cohesion and peer relationship types,and partially mediates between family adaptability and peer relationship types.On the basis of the conclusions,this paper puts forward some suggestions for parents and teachers in view of family influence,children's peer relationship and emotional regulation ability.Parents:(1)create a good family environment and improve family cohesion;(2)set an example to provide demonstration and guidance for children's emotional regulation;(3)strengthen parent-child communication and provide experience for children's peer interaction;(4)learn appropriate parenting knowledge and establish a scientific concept of parenting;and teachers:(1)pay attention to children's emotional state and give education and guidance timely;(2)develop targeted emotional education through emotional curriculum;(3)teach children some methods of peer interaction;(4)create opportunities for peer interaction in educational and teaching activities;(5)actively communicate with parents about children's emotional adjustment ability and peer relationship level.