MindMap Gallery Toddler sociality
This is a mind map about children's sociality, including the development of children's interpersonal relationships, the development of children's social behavior, and the development of children's morality.
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sociality of young children
Development of interpersonal relationships in young children
Parent-child relationship
parent-child interaction
Meaning: The interaction between children and their caregivers (mainly parents) is the most important social relationship for young children.
effect
A good parent-child relationship can promote the healthy emotional development of young children
A good parent-child relationship can improve children's cognitive abilities. Parent-child interaction provides favorable conditions for children to understand the world and develop cognitive abilities.
A good parent-child relationship can promote the formation of good character in children. Good character enables children to form a parent-child relationship through interaction with the surrounding environment, which is of special significance to the formation of children's character.
Classification (upbringing style)
Authoritarian parent-child relationship
It is easy to cause children to have low self-esteem, cowardice, and timidity, which is not conducive to the formation of good character.
laissez-faire parent-child relationship
It can easily lead to children being loose and lack of awareness of rules, which is not conducive to the social development of children.
doting parent-child relationship
It will lead to pampering, dependence, laziness, selfishness, willfulness, and is not conducive to the cultivation of good character.
democratic parent-child relationship
It is conducive to cultivating children's good emotions, enhancing children's self-confidence, and developing children's cognition and sociality.
Attachment (the main form of parent-child relationship, the basis of all social emotions)
Connotation: a lasting and strong emotional connection or connection formed through close interaction between an individual and a significant other
infant attachment development
Indiscriminate social response stage (0~3 months)
Also known as the pre-attachment stage, it is unable to distinguish external information and cannot distinguish the main caregiver (mother) from others. It is almost the same for everyone. It relies on the person to send a variety of signals. They have a special understanding of human faces. Preferences.
Differential social reaction stages (3~6 months)
Also known as the attachment formation period, babies have gradually distinguished their primary caregiver (mother) from others and show different reactions to the two. They will not resist separation from their parents.
Special emotional bonding stage (6 months to 2 years old)
Also known as the clear attachment period, clear signs of attachment appear, often haunting the mother, showing resistance and sadness when parting, and beginning to become wary of strangers. Six months to two years old is a critical period for children to establish emotional connections with others. , try to avoid long-term separation of children from their parents
Causes of attachment in young children
Psychologist Ellsworth studied children's separation anxiety and stranger anxiety through strange situation experiments.
type
Secure attachment (the better attachment style)
Characteristics: Exploring the surrounding environment when mother is around, not always clinging to mother. When strangers are present, they approach strangers in a friendly manner and respond positively to them. When the mother leaves, their exploratory behavior is obviously affected, and they feel anxious and painful. When the mother comes back, she immediately takes the initiative to seek closeness to her mother. After being comforted, she easily recovers from the pain and continues to play games.
Parenting style: ① Parents are sensitive to their children’s needs and have a positive attitude. ② Parents often interact with their children, do the same things together, provide emotional support for their children's activities, and often encourage their children.
Performance: Children have more self-esteem, emotional health and stability, low aggressive behavior, and stronger social adaptability and social skills.
avoidant attachment
Characteristics: When the mother is around, the child does not care whether the mother is around, and does not form a close emotional connection with the mother. It is easier to leave the mother and participate in an unfamiliar environment when a stranger is present. The mother showed no obvious resistance or separation anxiety when she left. They will ignore their mother when she comes back, and will not take the initiative to approach her. They will take avoidance behaviors such as turning around and leaving when their mother approaches them.
Parenting style: ① Parents are insensitive to their children’s needs, show little information, and satisfy their children’s needs. ②Get less pleasure from children’s contact. ③ Being over-enthusiastic and over-stimulating towards the child, often nagging the child, forcibly creating certain needs for the child, making the child unbearable.
Performance: Young children are highly aggressive and always snatch other people's toys and bully others, so they are often not recognized by their peers.
defiant attachment
Characteristics: Often clings to mother when she is around, unable to freely explore the environment. They are wary of strangers when they are present, even if their mother is around. They show a high degree of vigilance when their mothers leave. Once their mothers leave, they will have strong separation anxiety and resistance. It was difficult for the mother to recover from the pain when she returned, and at the same time she showed contradictory attitudes and behaviors of seeking closeness to her mother and resisting closeness.
Parenting style: ①Parents’ parenting styles are usually inconsistent. Sometimes they are enthusiastic and sometimes cold towards their children. Children will feel desperate about their parents’ attitudes and methods. In order to gain attention from them, they will cling to their parents and make me cry. If all efforts are ineffective, They will become angry and resentful.
Performance: Young children are timid, easily withdrawn when encountering problems, unwilling to interact with others, and are often bullied.
Disorganized attachment (the most insecure type of dependence)
Characteristics: Mixed avoidance and resistance, two types of characteristics, often showing contradictory and chaotic behaviors, reflecting that they want to be close to their mother, but they leave when their mother approaches, and they show a confused and melancholy expression when they approach their mother. Weird ones may cry again after being comforted. In most cases, they look overwhelmed and often express their emotions with confused expressions.
Parenting style: Parents often ignore their children's needs or are physically abusive
Young children are more complex. Their behavior is almost irregular and lacks integrity. Their behavior and emotions are erratic and difficult to control and prevent.
The role of early attachment in early childhood development
Influence young children's cognitive activities. Secure attachment means that children develop more complex exploratory behaviors when they are two years old. They are very interested and curious about various things and can actively explore.
Influence children's emotions
Impact on young children’s social interactions
companionship
Meaning: People who are close or the same age, have the same or similar psychological development level and have the same or similar status, and develop interpersonal relationships during various periods of communication.
effect
Develop social behavior. In peer interactions, children begin to learn to communicate, cooperate, and share with others, and begin to understand social skills and strategies.
Promote the healthy development of emotions and emotions. In peer interactions, young children will gain a sense of security, intimacy and belonging, and develop cheerful and positive emotions.
Promote cognitive development. In peer interactions, children will share and imitate each other, enriching children's cognition, expanding their thinking, and improving their ability to operate and solve problems.
develop
Peer interactions in infancy and early childhood
Object-centered stage (0.5~1 years old)
Simple communication stage (1~1.5 years old)
The onset period of infant peer interaction
No interaction stage (1.5~2.5 years old)
Companion relationship, currently in the waiting stage.
Peer interactions in early childhood
about 3 years old
Mainly solo games and parallel games. Young children will talk to themselves while playing, without contact with each other and no intention of cooperation.
about 4 years old
Continuity games are gradually increasing. Children will participate together, and there is always a certain connection between the games, but there is no common purpose, no clear division of labor, and the level of peer interaction is still very low.
after 5 years old
Cooperative games begin to develop. Children will participate in a game together. They have a common game purpose, division of labor and cooperation. Game rules will be formulated during the game, and some disputes will arise when the rules are implemented. Initiative and coordination will be improved. are better developed and have a higher degree of socialization in peer relationships.
type
Popular
Have a harmonious relationship with peers, be good at communicating, be willing to share, lack aggression, be able to handle problematic situations independently, and have a higher status among peers.
Socially disadvantaged children
Neglected
He is not very active in group activities, prefers to act alone, and shrinks from other people's aggressive behaviors. He is often on the edge of playmates.
Rejected
He has a very extroverted personality, has a big temper, has a short temper, is impulsive, often exhibits aggressive behavior and unfriendly communication methods, and often misunderstands the intentions of others. He does not adjust his communication strategies in time according to the situation of the person he is interacting with, and is easily attracted by other children. Dislike
Teacher-child interaction
Meaning: An interpersonal relationship formed between teachers and children through mutual understanding and emotional exchange during common educational and teaching activities. The ideal teacher-child relationship is an interactive, democratic and sharing relationship.
Strategy
Establish scientific educational concepts
Changing the role of teachers
Respect children's personal dignity (no corporal punishment, no sarcasm, no sarcasm.)
Improve teacher quality
The development of social behavior in young children
prosocial behavior in young children
Development characteristics
Concept: Behavior that benefits others or society by responding to others through sympathy, cooperation, assistance, comfort, or dedication.
Classification
Cooperative behavior (the most frequently occurring prosocial behavior in young children)
In order to achieve a common goal, children cooperate and coordinate to complete tasks together.
It begins to appear around the age of two, and by the age of five children are already at a high level of cooperative play.
Helping behavior (an important manifestation of prosocial behavior, typical altruistic behavior)
3 to 6 years old is a critical period for the development of children's helping behavior, reaching its peak in the middle of primary school.
two motives
obedience to authority
hope to get something in return
Features
three stages of age
Small class for 3~4 years old
4~5 years old middle class
Motive: Mostly out of compliance with social norms
5~6 year old senior class
Do not reciprocate behavior
gender
The overall development level of boys helping others is higher than that of girls.
object pointed to
Helping behavior among same-sex peers is higher than helping behavior among opposite-sex peers
Sharing behavior
The behavior of young children using and experiencing objects or emotions they own with others
Children aged 4 to 5 have the concept of equal sharing, and children aged 5 to 6 have made a qualitative leap in their sharing behavior.
comforting behavior
After children notice the negative emotions of others, they use their own behavior to help others gain positive emotions.
Features
gender
Girls show more consoling behavior than boys
occurrence and development
Soothing behavior has already occurred by the age of two, and continues to develop in early childhood as age increases.
way of comfort
3~4 years old: Accompany and caress each other to express comfort.
4~5 years old: Can use simple language to comfort others
5~6 years old: comfort others by telling stories, giving gifts, etc.
Influencing factors
Empathy
One of the important promoting factors and important motivations for prosocial behavior
interpersonal relationships
Social (children’s exposure environment is mainly family, kindergarten and communication media) learning
nourish
role play training
Improve empathy
Strengthen role model education
Role models play a very important role in the formation of children's prosocial behavior
Provide children with spiritual rewards
gain group recognition
Aggressive behavior in young children
Meaning: Any behavior that is purposeful, hurts the physical emotions of others, or intentionally causes damage to other people's property.
One of the conduct disorders, which is a general behavioral deviation
Development characteristics
This behavior occurs at the age of two, and boys are significantly more aggressive than girls
After the age of two, the frequency of physical aggression in children decreases, while the frequency of verbal aggression increases relatively
4 to 5 years old is the age when children's aggressive behavior is most common, and middle school is the age when children's aggressive behavior is most common.
After the age of 5, children's aggressive behavior gradually decreases
intervention strategies
Conduct cognitive intelligence training
Build harmonious family relationships
Teach young children reasonable ways to vent their anger
Use words to express your bad feelings
Children vent their anger through yelling, yelling, crying, etc. at the appropriate time and place
Organize various interesting games and activities to divert children’s bad emotions
Proper use of mass media
Choose books, animations, movies and TV shows suitable for young children
Discover the strengths of young children
Praise, encourage, recognize
The fact of disturbing young children
Influencing factors
psychological factors
Frustration is the direct cause of aggressive behavior in young children
biological factors
Genetic factors account for about half, which are related to certain special genes and are related to excessive secretion of endocrine and male hormones in the human body.
Family Factors
Family parenting styles (laissez-faire, domestic violence) have a profound impact on young children
Mass media and imitation
Young children have strong imitation ability but poor ability to distinguish right from wrong. They are prone to imitate others and engage in aggressive behaviors.
social cognitive deficits
Tend to engage in aggressive behavior as a common means of protecting themselves
Accumulation and strengthening of experience
Moral development in young children
Development characteristics
concreteness
Children's thinking belongs to concrete image thinking, and their understanding of moral behavior is also concrete, intuitive and situational.
heteronomy
Children aged 3 to 7 are in the moral heteronomy stage. They only pay attention to the external consequences of behavior and do not consider intrinsic motivations. They enter the self-discipline stage after they are 10 years old.
Imitation
Imitation of actions in early childhood is an important way of learning
Emotional
Children's moral judgments are often affected by their own emotions
Influencing factors
Cognitive development level of young children
Adults should not exceed the level of cognitive development in education and should not place excessive demands on young children.
Family education and parental influence
Peer interactions and activities
Conducive to the development of children's moral emotions
Teachers and role models