Social development is an important aspect of children's physical and mental development, it is the significance basis to children for their learning, growth and being socialize. Social development refers to the interaction... [ view full abstract ]
Social development is an important aspect of children's physical and mental development, it is the significance basis to children for their learning, growth and being socialize. Social development refers to the interaction between the individual and the social system and the understanding，adoption process and its results of social issues during this process., including social cognition,social emotional, social behavior and social relations.
In this research we investigated the development situation of 8263 school-age children in city or in rural of 12 provinces of China. The results showed :(1) Social cognition: social cognitive development level of Chinese school-aged children is increased significantly with age, girls do better than boys, there is no significant difference between children in city and in rural areas, un-left-behind children develop faster than left-behind children not only in the speed of social social cognitive development, but also in the level. (2)Social emotional: the developmental level of emotion understanding, emotion regulation and emotional expression is increased significantly with age of Chinese children, children in senior grades could understand emotions in others more accurate, also they do well in emotion regulation and emotion expression; In primary school, gender has no significant difference in social emotions development between children, there is also no significant difference in social emotions development between urban children and rural children, but the level of emotion understanding of left-behind children is significantly lower than others, more left-behind children take the negative strategy to regular their negative emotions.(3)Social behavior: the development of social behavior of Chinese school-aged children is in a relatively stable stage, children in different gander and different types are all behavior helpful and cooperative; but compare with others children, left-behind children show more aggression.(4)Moreover, the development of social understanding, social emotional, social behavior of Chinese school-aged children have significantly predicted effect to their peer relation.
