幼儿对不同被助对象的助人观念及其行为发展的研究

本文置幼儿于冲突与无冲突两种情境中,用问卷法和情境实验法研究了小班和大班幼儿对不同被助对象的助人观念及其行为的发展关系,并考察了不同被助对象,不同情境和不同年级对幼儿助人观念及其行为发展的影响.得出情境的不同深刻影响着幼儿的助人观念及其行为的发展,而不同被助对象与年级对幼儿的助人观念及其行为的发展影响不大的结论.同时揭示出不论幼儿的助人观念还是助人行为的发展在冲突情境中都不如无冲突的情境,且二者的关系既不匹配也不平衡.     

教师态度与指导方式对幼儿坚持性影响的实验研究

本研究采用3×2×2(年龄×教师态度×言语指导方式)三因素完全随机实验设计,考察了教师态度和言语指导对3~6岁幼儿坚持性的影响。其中幼儿年龄、教师态度及言语指导方式为实验的自变量,幼儿坚持完成任务的时间为实验因变量,设计4种实验情境,并随机选择沈阳市两所幼儿园,分层选取小、中、大班的幼儿作为实验研究的被试,年龄分布在3~6岁之间,每种情境下每个年龄段的有效被试各为30人,男女各半,共360人。研究结果表明:(1)3~6岁幼儿的坚持性随着年龄的增长而逐渐发展,且4~5岁是幼儿坚持性发展的转折期;(2)不同的教师态度对幼儿的坚持性影响显著;(3)不同的言语指导方式对幼儿坚持性影响显著;(4)教师积极态度下,多次言语指导对幼儿的坚持性会产生最积极的影响。     

儿童道德情绪判断及归因模式的实验研究

运用故事情境的临床访谈方法,本研究考察了4、6、8岁儿童在不同侵犯程度道德情境中的道德情绪判断及归因模式,研究结果表明：(1)儿童对行业者的道德情绪判断经由积极向消极发展．其归因模式为“个人定向一外部惩罚定向一道德定向”;(2)幼儿在道德情境中的观点采择能力受制于其发展水平,4岁儿童在冲突性情境中尚难以区分故事中的行为者与自己作为行为者在情绪体验上的差异;(3)在幼儿道德发展过程中,“快乐的损人者”预期是一种比较普遍性的现象,随着儿童年龄的增长,这一现象逐渐减弱;(4)道德情境的侵犯程度并不影响儿童的判断和归因。     

四种注意情境下幼儿自我延迟满足的实验研究

将120名中等自控能力的3～5岁幼儿随机分配到四种注意情境下:两种奖励物同时呈现、只呈现即时奖励物、只呈现延迟奖励物、两种奖励物都不呈现,以探索幼儿自我延迟满足的注意机制及发展特点。结果发现:(1)幼儿自我延迟满足在两种奖励物都不呈现情境下平均延迟时间最长,在呈现奖励物的三种情境下平均延迟时间较短,表现出跨年龄稳定性;(2)3～5岁幼儿自我延迟满足发展存在显著年龄差异,表现出随年龄增长而提高的趋势。     

6~10岁儿童对损人情境下行为者的道德情绪判断与归因

采用故事情境法探讨6~10岁儿童对损人情境下损人者和旁观者的道德情绪判断与归因的发展。结果发现：（1）在损人情境下,6岁儿童能理解损人行为是不对的,但直到8岁儿童才能理解旁观行为是不对的;（2）随着年龄增长,儿童判断损人者的愉悦程度逐渐降低,情绪归因从结果定向过渡到道德定向;儿童判断旁观者的愉悦程度逐渐降低,情绪归因从无法有效归因过渡到道德定向;（3）儿童对不同行为者的道德情绪判断同时受年龄和性别的影响,6岁男孩判断损人者愉悦程度显著高于女孩,6岁男孩判断旁观者愉悦程度显著低于女孩;8岁和10岁儿童对两类行为者的道德情绪判断未发现显著的性别差异。     

4—6岁幼儿图画书自主阅读过程中文字注视的眼动研究

儿童早期的文字意识是儿童阅读能力发展最重要的两个预测变量之一,在幼儿时期表现为对文字的关注。研究以121名4-6岁幼儿为被试,采用TobiiT60眼动仪记录幼儿在图画书阅读过程中对文字注视的眼动。结果发现:1.幼儿在自主阅读情境下仍然首先关注图画、在阅读过程中主要关注图画,自主阅读情境中幼儿对文字的注视时间比例和注视次数比例远高于亲子阅读情境中的比例。2.年龄和文字面积是幼儿图画书自主阅读中文字注视的核心影响因素,幼儿对文字的注视比例随着年龄的增长而不断提高,文字面积通过年龄对幼儿的文字注视起作用。3.幼儿早期阅读能力经历了从图画到文字的发展过程,学前末期,幼儿逐渐成为一个初步的文字阅读者。     

大学生“知恩图报”的心理反应特点

以52名大学生为被试,在真实的游戏情境中设定施恩与受恩的情形,考察个体是否会“知恩图报”。结果发现：受恩的被试具有一定的感恩意识,但比较薄弱;感恩情绪总体上是一种积极的心理体验过程,并且随着报恩行为的发生,个体的这种正性情绪会相对增强;受恩被试具有明显的感恩回报行为,但回报值低于所接受的恩惠值。说明“知恩图报”是以保护自身利益为前提的有限回馈,其实质很可能是基于亏欠而产生的一种偿还义务。     

幼儿自我调节能力的发展及与气质的关系

本研究主要讨论幼儿自我调节能力的发展及与气质的关系。研究从执行功能的角度入手,采用实验法和问卷法对90名3～5岁的幼儿进行研究,通过创设难度递进的冲突情境来考察儿童在两种不一致规则中的转换能力。结果表明,幼儿自我调节能力的发展随年龄增长而提高,并存在显著的年龄差异;幼儿气质与自我调节能力的发展有着密切的关系,特别是专注性和社会抑制性维度对不同水平的幼儿自我调节能力的方差检验都达到了显著,二者与年龄一起,能够对幼儿自我调节能力进行一定程度的预测。     

幼儿对不同情境中的情绪认知及其归因

考察了90名3~5岁幼儿对4种与情绪关联程度不同的日常情境中,具有积极或是消极行为表现的故事主人公的情绪理解。结果表明：（1）绝大多数幼儿都能理解各情境中具有积极行为的主人公觉得高兴。（2）幼儿对相应的消极情绪认知要相对差一些,并在3~4岁之间获得了较显著的发展进而达到基本能全数理解的水平;尤其是在低关联情境中,幼儿对消极情绪的认知更差一些,且显著低于对高关联情境中的消极情绪认知。（3）60%左右的3岁幼儿能认识到同样情境中具有不同行为表现的个体具有不同的情绪体验,到4、5岁时,幼儿的这一情感观点采择能力获得较大发展并达到成熟水平。（4）幼儿的情绪归因与情绪的性质以及具体的情境有关     

混龄教育对幼儿助人行为的促进作用——来自纵向研究的证据

混龄教育是指将不同年龄阶段和发展水平的幼儿按照一定的模式加以组合,以促进幼儿认知和社会性发展的一种教育方式.为了从实证角度考察混龄教育对幼儿助人行为的影响,本研究采用纵向设计的方法,追踪了40个分别来自混龄教育和同龄教育班级的幼儿.通过设置不同的助人情境,安排不同的受助对象,对比两种教育模式下幼儿的助人行为成绩及前后测成绩的变化.结果发现,幼儿在不同助人情境中的助人行为不存在显著差异;接受过混龄教育的年长幼儿比接受过同龄教育的年长幼儿更倾向于帮助低龄幼儿;混龄教育幼儿后测的助人行为较前测有了显著的提高,同龄教育幼儿的助人行为变化不显著.这表明,混龄教育比同龄教育更能促进幼儿的助人行为发展,这一效应尤其表现在他们对待低龄幼儿的助人行为中.     

A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude

Three studies tested a new model of gratitude, which specified the generative mechanisms linking individual differences (trait gratitude) and objective situations with the amount of gratitude people experience after receiving aid (state gratitude). In Study 1, all participants (N = 253) read identical vignettes describing a situation in which they received help. People higher in trait gratitude made more positive beneficial appraisals (seeing the help as more valuable, more costly to provide, and more altruistically intended), which fully mediated the relationship between trait and state levels of gratitude. Study 2 (N = 113) replicated the findings using a daily process study in which participants reported on real events each day for up to 14 days. In Study 3, participants (N = 200) read vignettes experimentally manipulating objective situations to be either high or low in benefit. Benefit appraisals were shown to have a causal effect on state gratitude and to mediate the relationship between different prosocial situations and state gratitude. The 3 studies demonstrate the critical role of benefit appraisals in linking state gratitude with trait gratitude and the objective situation.     

Forms of social awareness and helping

People encounter situations from different forms of awareness; that is, they can attend to different focal topics (e.g., self, other person, or other person's situation) from different perspectives (e.g., the self's viewpoint, the other person's viewpoint). Two studies assessed whether brief interactions would produce different forms of social awareness, whether the form of awareness would persist to a subsequent interaction, and whether it would influence helping in that encounter. Pedestrians on a city sidewalk were induced to become self-focused (experimenter took their picture), become other-focused (they took experimenter's picture), or empathically adopt the perspective of another person (they advised experimenter where to take a picture). In Study 1, subjects were interviewed after leaving the experimenter. First- and third-person pronoun use and self-ratings suggested that subjects had different forms of awareness. In Study 2, pedestrians participated in one of the same three interaction conditions or a control noninteraction condition and subsequently encountered a confederate in need of help. Subjects in the self-focused and empathic condition helped more than subjects in the other-focused or control condition. Results suggest that forms of awareness created in a brief interaction do persist to subsequent interactions and influence helping. Other variables may influence helping by altering forms of social awareness.     

4～6岁儿童对“偶得物品”与“拥有物品”的分享行为

采用被试内设计法,在三种实验条件下考察180名4～6岁儿童的分享判断及其对“偶得物品”与“拥有物品”的分享行为的发展。结果发现:(1)儿童在对分享故事情境进行不充当角色的判断时,90%的4岁儿童和100%的5岁、6岁儿童能做出正确判断。当他们进行充当故事中人物角色的判断时,4岁儿童判断的正确率降低到81%,5岁和6岁儿童的判断无变化。(2)4岁儿童中大约四分之一的人能够把在实验室情境中偶然得到的、自己喜欢的物品让给未得到该物品的同伴分享,能够这样做的5岁儿童大约有一半,而6岁儿童能够这样做的人达到七成以上,从4岁到6岁,发展趋势非常明显。(3)在对“自己拥有的”物品的分享上,大多数4～6岁儿童都不能将其让给在竞赛中失败、未获得该物品的同伴一同分享。(4)儿童在对分享情境的判断与他们的真实分享行为之间存在着不一致现象。     

Preschool‐aged children's understanding of gratitude: Relations with emotion and mental state knowledge

Developmental precursors to children's early understanding of gratitude were examined. A diverse group of 263 children was tested for emotion and mental state knowledge at ages 3 and 4, and their understanding of gratitude was measured at age 5. Children varied widely in their understanding of gratitude, but most understood some aspects of gratitude‐eliciting situations. A model‐building path analysis approach was used to examine longitudinal relations among early emotion and mental state knowledge and later understanding of gratitude. Children with a better early understanding of emotions and mental states understand more about gratitude. Mental state knowledge at age 4 mediated the relation between emotion knowledge at age 3 and gratitude understanding at age 5. The current study contributes to the scant literature on the early emergence of children's understanding of gratitude.     

Gratitude and prosocial behavior: helping when it costs you

The ability of the emotion gratitude to shape costly prosocial behavior was examined in three studies employing interpersonal emotion inductions and requests for assistance. Study 1 demonstrated that gratitude increases efforts to assist a benefactor even when such efforts are costly (i.e., hedonically negative), and that this increase differs from the effects of a general positive affective state. Additionally, mediational analyses revealed that gratitude, as opposed to simple awareness of reciprocity norms, drove helping behavior. Furthering the theory that gratitude mediates prosocial behavior, Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 and demonstrated gratitude's ability to function as an incidental emotion by showing it can increase assistance provided to strangers. Study 3 revealed that this incidental effect dissipates if one is made aware of the true cause of the emotional state. Implications of these findings for the role of gratitude in building relationships are discussed.     

7岁儿童在助人情境中的行为表现及其与父母教养方式的关系

在实验室结构观察中穿插3个助人情境,观察119名7岁儿童(男42,女77)的行为表现,并考察其三种行为与父母教养方式的关系。结果发现:7岁儿童在三种情境中的助人行为无显著的性别差异,在"搬桌子"和"砸脚"情境中男孩的游戏行为显著多于女孩,观望行为显著少于女孩。儿童的行为表现与同性别的家长教养方式关系更强。     

Measuring gratitude in children

ABSTRACT

Gratitude is a rich socioemotional construct that emerges over development beginning in early childhood. Existing measures of children’s gratitude as a trait or behavior may be limited because they do not capture different aspects of gratitude moments (i.e. awareness, thoughts, feelings, and actions) and the way that these facets appear in children. The current study evaluates a battery of new measures assessing children’s gratitude to address these limitations. Parent-child dyads (N = 101; children aged 6–9) completed a lab-based assessment followed by a 7-day online parental diary and 18-month follow-up survey. In addition to newly developed measures of children’s gratitude, the battery included indicators of convergent, concurrent, divergent, and predictive validity. Results demonstrate the complexity of gratitude as a construct and the relative benefits and limits of various assessment modalities. Implications for the measurement of children’s gratitude and suggestions for future research on the development of gratitude are discussed.     

感恩与大学生助人行为:共情反应的中介作用及其性别差异

本研究采用感恩特质问卷、共情反应问卷和助人行为独裁者游戏对629名大学生进行了施测,以探讨大学生感恩影响助人行为的内在机制,并考察共情反应的中介作用及其性别差异。结果发现：（1）女生感恩、共情反应和助人行为均显著高于男生;（2）共情反应在大学生感恩和助人行为之间的关系中具有部分中介作用;（3）共情反应的中介作用在男生和女生样本中均达到显著水平,相对于男生,女生共情反应对感恩与助人行为的中介效应显著增强。研究结论对于高校大学生的感恩教育和道德教育与干预具有参考价值。     

The situational antecedents of pride and happiness: Developmental and domain differences

This study examines whether young children can differentiate between the situational antecedents of happiness and pride and the effect of the type of situation on the attribution of pride. One hundred and fifty 7‐, 9‐ and 11‐year‐olds were asked to rate the extent to which two types of situations would elicit a protagonist's feelings of happiness and pride. Happy situations were expected to elicit happiness only, e.g. because the protagonist received a gift — a desirable result, but beyond his/her personal control. Achievement situations were expected to elicit both happiness and pride, e.g. because the protagonist won an award — a desirable and beneficial outcome for the agent which (s)he was responsible for bringing about. If the children could differentiate between the situational determinants of happiness and pride, they would be expected to give high ratings for pride in achievement situations only. To examine the effect of the type of situation on children's ratings for pride, discretionary moral situations were introduced in which the protagonist was performing a moral act for the benefit of a third person without personal cost (helping an old lady carry her shopping bags) or with cost (giving a sandwich to a hungry child). The results of the study revealed that only the 11‐year‐olds were able to fully differentiate between the two emotions. The type of situation affected children's ratings for pride. Children attributed less pride to the protagonist in moral situations, particularly in the cost condition, than to the protagonist in achievement situations.