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Volume 10,Issue 9
22 October 2025
Dynamic Trajectory of Sharing Behavior in Rural 4–5 Children: A Situational Experiment
Shanshan Li ,
Ying Wang ,
Honglian Chen
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Shandong University of Aeronautics Teacher Education College, Binzhou 256603, Shandong, China,
JCER 2025 , 9(9), 123–128;
https://doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v9i9.12446
© 2025 by the Authors. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract
Sharing behavior is of great significance to the development of young children. This paper takes 170 middle class children as a sample to explore the influencing factors of sharing behavior in preschool children and its age development characteristics. This study shows that the score of willingness to share and the number of shares was inversely proportional to the value of the shared items; When there is an abundance of items to share, children share significantly more in the presence of the sharing partner than in the absence of the partner. Based on the findings, educational recommendations are made from three aspects: cultivating intrinsic motivation in children, enhancing the stability of children’s behavior, and guiding children to form correct values.
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