A Study On The Effects Of Empathy Training On Comforting Behaviors Of 4-5 Year Old Childre

Comfort behavior refers to the prosocial behavior in which individuals identify the negative emotions of others in the state of empathy,and help others to alleviate the negative emotions through instinctive words or actions,so that they become happy.The age of 4 is the critical period for the development of children’s comfort behavior.If the children’s comfort behavior can be developed rapidly at this stage,the social needs and interpersonal communication will also show a good trend in the future.Empathy training is an important means to promote the development of children’s comfort behavior,so this study used empathy training as an intervention.To explore the intervention effect of emotion recognition training,situational discussion training and role play training on children’s comfort behavior,it has achieved the purpose of promoting the development of comfort behavior of 4-5 year old children.We selected 80 middle class children aged 4-5 years old from S kindergarten in S city of Liaoning province as research subjects,and divided them randomly into emotion recognition group,scene discussion group,angle play group and control group.Then,the reliability and validity of the comfort behavior measurement instrument were tested to verify the homogeneity of all the children’s comfort behavior.4(group: emotion recognition group,situational discussion group,role-playing group,control group)× 2(gender: male,female)× 2(time:pre-test,post-test)multi-factor mixed experimental design was used to investigate the interaction of group,gender and time on children’s comfort behavior.Analysis by spss23.0 concluded that:1.Empathy training can promote children’s comfort behavior,and the trained experimental group scored significantly higher than the untrained control group.2.Different models of empathy training have different effects on children’s comfort behavior,and role-play training has a greater effect on children’s comfort behavior than the other two training.3.Gender has a significant effect on comfort behavior in different training structure patterns.4.The intervention effect of empathy training on children’s comfort behavior was significantly affected by the interaction of group,gender and time.Based on the above conclusions,this paper puts forward some suggestions to promote the development of children’s comforting behavior: first,pay attention to children’s comforting behavior and support feedback in time;Secondly,we should attach importance to all kinds of empathic training and select appropriate models.Finally,take a correct view of gender differences and pay attention to coordinated development.