DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING

该提案寻求对一项研究计划的持续支持 审查在社会和道德理解的发展， 学前教育和早期教育，以及它们之间的关系 发展和儿童与朋友和家人的密切关系。 拟议研究的特别重点是友谊， 揭示和培养的重要关系 儿童的社会和道德理解以及与母亲的关系 和兄弟姐妹目的是研究个体差异之间的联系 在社会和道德的理解和个人差异， 友谊随着时间的推移，在一项纵向研究的140名儿童从4 直到一年级结束。重点是社会进程 联系社会关系和理解; 家庭关系、性别、气质和语言能力 还将检查连接。特别感兴趣的将是 儿童心理活动的连续性和变化 理解和密切的关系，因为他们使过渡， 从学前班到幼儿园，再到一年级。这项研究将产生 4至7年的友谊和社会理解数据，以及 提供机会来测试有关链接的竞争假设 理解和社会关系之间的关系。

This proposal seeks continuing support for a program of research examining developments in social and moral understanding during the preschool and early school years, and the relations between these developments and children's close relationships with friends and family. The particular foci of the proposed study is upon friendship, a relationship of major Importance in both revealing and fostering children's social and moral understanding, and relationships with mother and Sibling. The aims are to examine links between individual differences in social and moral understanding and individual differences in friendship over time, In a longitudinal study of 140 children from 4 years to the end of first grade. The focus is upon the socIal processes linking social relationshIps and understanding; the significance of family relationships, gender, temperament, and verbal abilIty in these connections will also be examined. Of special Interest will be the connections between and continuities and changes In children's understanding and close relationships as they make the transitions from preschool to kindergarten, and to first grade. The study will generate data on friendship and social understanding between 4 and 7 years, and provide the opportunity to test competing hypotheses concerning the links between understanding and social relationships.