DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING

该提案寻求对一项研究计划的持续支持 考察在社会和道德理解方面的发展 学龄前和学龄前期，以及它们之间的关系 发展以及儿童与朋友和家人的密切关系。 这项拟议研究的重点是友谊，一个 在揭示和培养两个方面都至关重要的关系 儿童对社会和道德的理解，以及与母亲的关系 还有兄弟姐妹。其目的是检查个体差异之间的联系 在社会和道德理解和个体差异方面 在一项对来自4个州的140名儿童的纵向研究中，友谊随着时间的推移而变化 离一年级结束还有好几年。重点放在社会过程上。 将社会关系和理解联系起来；意义 家庭关系、性别、气质和语言能力 还将检查连接。特别值得关注的将是 儿童与儿童之间的联系和连续性与变化 理解和密切关系，因为他们从 从学前班到幼儿园，再到一年级。这项研究将产生 4至7年间的友谊和社会理解数据，以及 提供测试有关链接的相互竞争的假设的机会 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.