三种情境下4~8岁儿童自尊发展的实验研究

An Experimental Study On Self-esteem's Development in Children Aged 4 to 8 Years

依据对儿童自尊结构的研究，发现儿童自尊是由重要感、自我胜任感和外表感三个因素构成。本研究采用表情实验方法，通过个别施测。考察了150名4～8岁儿童在重要感、自我胜任感、外表感三种不同结构情境下自尊发展特点。结果表明：（1）4～8岁儿童自尊总体发展存在非常显著的年龄差异；4岁儿童自尊发展水平最高，5岁儿童水平最低。（2）儿童自尊发展存在显著性别差异，女生发展水平显著高于男生。

Based on the structural study of children＇s self-esteem, we adopted an expression experiment to investigate the developmental characteristics of self-esteem of 150 children aged 4 to 8 years under different conditions via individual measures. The results showed that： （1）A very significant age difference existed in the global self-esteem development, and the highest developmental level of self-esteem was in children aged 4 years while the lowest level was in 5-year-olds; （2）Gender difference was very notable, which indicated developmental level of girls was much higher than that of boys.