Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (6): 641-647.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.06.01

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The Developmental Character of Primary School Children's Sharing and the Effects of Positive Feedbacks

HAO Jiajia1,2, CHEN Yinghe2   

  1. 1. Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Center Collaborative Innovation for Assessment and Promotion of Mental Health, Tianjin 30074;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2015-11-15 Published:2015-11-15

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Abstract: Sharing is one of the typical prosocial behaviors. This study explored the development of children's sharing during primary school and the effects of positive feedbacks from oneself, partner and authority. Double-anonymous dictator games were conducted to 386 students from 2-6 grades that randomly assigned as 3 experimental groups and control group. The experimental groups received positive feedback from self, partner or authority after the first session separately. The results showed:(a) most of children were willing to share with their partners in classic dictator game, and they shared more coins as growing up; the mainly sharing type changed from self-interested sharing to equal sharing.(b) feedbacks from partner and authority increased follow sharing of children in grade 2 and grade 4; however the feedback of self-evaluation increased follow sharing of children in grade 4 and grade 6. These results suggested that children's sharing increased during primary school, the positive feedbacks from different information sources had promoting effects on children's sharing varying with the age stage.

Key words: primary school children, sharing, positive feedback, information sources

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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