Research On Peer Conflict Behaviors And Resolution Strategies Of Middle-class Children In Role Areas

In the process of conflict and resolution,children’s inner cognition is also in conflict.In the process of conflict,children learn to communicate with others,express their own opinions,listen to others’opinions,and accept others’ opinions.Peer conflict can improve children’s development of social cognition,social skills and emotional expression,help children develop social communication skills and change their self-centered thinking.This study selected 32 middle-class children in a kindergarten in Wuhan,Hubei Province as the research subjects,making a record form of peer conflicts of middle-class children.The study observed and analyzed the peer conflicts of middle-class children in the role areas by the methods of observation,interview and case analysis,counting the proportion of data from 7 aspects of start time,children’s gender,cause,duration,conflict type,solution strategy and result.Then summarized the characteristics of conflicts and children’s psychological activities.The results showed that peer conflicts mainly occur in the ongoing stage of game.The duration of peer conflicts in middle-class are shorter than 2 minutes.Peer conflicts are not directly related to gender in the role areas.In middle-class children,the main conflicts in the role area are the role relationship conflict.The main cause of middle-class children’s peer conflict in the role zone is the difference of opinion on the game.Middle-class children mainly adopt the strategies of negotiation,mediation and suing for help.Middle-class children begin to use positive strategies to resolve conflicts.The purpose is to make others obey themselves,not to achieve a win-win situation,so it is often difficult to properly resolve the conflict.The strategies adopted by middle-class children are influenced by children themselves,conflict situations,teachers’ management style and family factors.According to the phenomena and characteristics of the study,this study puts forward a series of rationalization suggestions for the strategies of dealing with the peer conflict.