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Types of Preschoolers’ School Readiness and Their Relationship with Self-confidence and Anxiety

GAO Bing-cheng   

  1. National Institute of Educational Science, Beijing 100088
  • Online:2014-09-15 Published:2014-09-15

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Abstract: 744 preschoolers have been investigated for their school readiness with latent profile analysis and discriminate analysis to explore types of school readiness and their differences of self-confidence and anxiety. It was found as follows: (1) Children school readiness level was correlated with parent educational differences, but there existed little gender difference. (2) Preschoolers' school readiness could be divided into three types, including mature type, common type and backward type. Students of mature type had the highest level of school readiness; students of backward type had the lowest level of school readiness; while preschoolers of common type had the intermediate school readiness.(3)Preschoolers' school readiness had significant positive correlation ship with their self-confidence and negative correlation ship with anxiety; Preschoolers with different types of school readiness had significant differences in their self-confidence and anxiety.

Key words: school readiness, self-confidence, anxiety, mental health, latent profile analysis

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  • G442
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