Insights into Middle Childhood Social and Personality Development
Explore theories, traits, and dynamics shaping social and personality development in middle childhood, including moral reasoning, family relationships, gender roles, aggression patterns, and social status.
Insights into Middle Childhood Social and Personality Development
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
Theories of Social and Personality DevelopmentPsychoanalytic Theories Freud: form emotional bonds with peers • Latency stage Erikson: sense of competence • Industry versus Inferiority Stage
Self-Concept Psychological self: psychological characteristics • More complex, less tied to external features Self-efficacy: • Social comparisons • Encouragement from valued sources Self Esteem
Self-ConceptThe Valued Self Nature of self-esteem
Self-ConceptMoral Reasoning: Piaget Moral reasoning: Judgments about rightness and wrongness of specific actions • Moral realism • Moral relativism
The Social World of the School-Aged ChildFamily Relationships Only children • As well adjusted as children with siblings Siblings • Positively contribute to children’s social and emotional understanding
The Social World of the School-Aged ChildGender Segregation Boundary violations Play group composition by gender Play focus Age of appearance Playmate preference and style
The Social World of the School-Aged ChildPatterns of Aggression
The Social World of the School-Aged ChildTwo Types of Rejected Children How are these types of rejected children alike? How are do they differ?
The Social World of the School-Aged ChildTwo Types of Rejected Children Neglected or rejected Very different from peers, shy, highly creative The invisible child
? ? Questions To Ponder Is there a link between viewing violent television and aggressive behavior in children?
Computers and the Internet • Economic differences • Uses • Gender differences • Violent content and game preferences