Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (3): 225-231.

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The Characteristics of 3 to 5-Year-Old Children’s Attribution to Peer Victimization

DONG Hui-qin1, JI Lin-qin2, CHEN Liang2, ZHANG Wen-xin2   

  1. 1. School of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;
    2. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • Online:2013-05-15 Published:2013-05-15

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Abstract: 284 children aged 3 to 5 years old from a public kindergarten in Jinan city were interviewed to explore children's attribution. Results indicated that: (1) 3 to 5-year-old children's attribution to peer victimization included the following four types: hostile intent attributions, critical self-referent attributions, neutral attributions and non-attributions; (2) critical self-referent attributions increased with children's age and non-attributions decreased with children's age; age 4 to 5 years was the period of transition; (3) children used more neutral attributions, but less critical self-referent attributions and non-attributions to property victimization than other types of peer victimization; children used less neutral attributions and more non-attributions to verbal victimization than other types of peer victimization.

Key words: children, peer victimization, attribution

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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