思想理论,自我认知和同龄人在中儿童和青春期早期的受欢迎程度
Christopher Osterhaus1, Giulio D'Urso2, Susanne Koerber3
1Developmental Psychology in Education, University of Vechta, 49377 Vechta, Germany.
Children (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 28, 2025
概括
思想理论 (ToM) 与儿童的自我认知和青少年的同行人气有关. 这项研究强调了ToM在儿童和青少年时期社会发展和自尊方面的日益重要.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
背景情况:
- 思想理论 (ToM) 和自我感知对于社会发展至关重要.
- 同行人气通常与儿童和青少年的ToM和自我认知有关.
- 了解这些关联可以为社会和情感学习的干预提供信息.
研究的目的:
- 调查同行人气,ToM和自我感知之间的个人差异和关联.
- 在两个不同的年龄组中检查这些关系:幼儿和早期青少年.
- 探索ToM在社会和自我感知发展中的作用的发展轨迹.
主要方法:
- 两项横截面研究与德国儿童 (5-8岁) 和加拿大青少年 (10-12岁) 进行.
- 参与者完成了评估思维理论,自我认知 (自尊) 的各种维度和同行人气的标准化措施.
- 数据分析的重点是确定每个年龄组内这些关键变量之间的显著相关性.
主要成果:
- 在年幼的儿童中 (研究1),ToM与全球自尊相联系,但与同行人气无关.
- 在年龄较大的儿童/青少年 (2项研究) 中,ToM与同行人气和学术自尊有显著的积极关联.
- 这些发现表明,ToM在社会功能和自我概念中的作用在发展过程中发生了转变.
结论:
- 思想理论是整个童年和青春期发展自我认知和社会成功的组成部分.
- 这些发现强调了培养ToM技能对于加强同行关系和身份形成的重要性.
- 讨论了课程发展对社会情感学习和身份发展的影响.
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