Social, Psychological, and Emotional Aspects of Child Development

Running Head: Child Development
Social, Emotional, and
Psychological Aspects of
Development in children
Essay
System04104
9/7/2019

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Social, Psychological, and Emotional Aspects of Child
Development
There are various factors related to social, psychological, and emotional factors that
determine the growth and development of children during early childhood (birth to 5 years
age). These factors help the children to understand and express their feelings to other people
and develop a meaningful relationship with people during 0 to 5 years of age. The emotional
and psychological factors helps the children to understand the feelings and emotions of others
and they can also expressed their own feelings to other people. The social and emotional
development in children includes variety of skills and constructs various actions in children
such as emotions, friendship, joint attention, self-awareness etc. The present essay analyses
the social, emotional, and psychological aspects of development in children aged birth to five
years. The essay also take the help of various theories that shows that how infant and young
children develop their self-identity. The present work also includes the contribution of
educators in children’s social, psychological, and emotional wellbeing.
Social and emotional development in children generally occurs over time and it affect
or influence the ability of children to interact with people and social surroundings (Emerson
& Einfeld, 2010). It has been seen that young children normally play with their own toys and
if children faces any issue then they interact with people to convey their issues in their own
language. However, sometimes it is very challenging for people and even for parents to
understand the emotions and psychological state of children. The understanding of their
social, emotional, and psychological states is really important for the overall development of
children (Brownell, 2013). The young children generally try to show their emotions through
weeping, crying, angry acts, and not talking with people. These emotions in the children only
survive for a short period but show the emotional and social development of children. The
start of learning and development start in children when they infant and interact with people
with smile and crying (Denham, Bassett, & Zinsser, 2012). Social and emotional
development in children generally includes many complex behaviour that are responsible for
social and emotional development in children. The first area of growth in young children is
their temperament through which children respond or acts to different situations. For
example, a one year baby reacts differently to a stranger than his/her father and mother. This
shows the development of emotional bond in the young children that helps the children to

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establish meaningful relationship with people (Julian & McCall, 2016). The ability of
children to along with other people or getting familiar with stranger people shows their social
development or social competence (Brown, 2015). However, the last is emotional regulations
through which children control their emotions and reactions in a particular situation or
environment. Children understand their own emotions and they also learn that how they can
control their emotions (Oberle, Schonert-Reichl, & Thomson, 2010). Generally, babies start
to develop their relationship starting from the birth with their own people like mother, father,
siblings, etc. The infant right from the birth interact with the mother during breast-feeding
and shows their emotions with smile when they play in the lap of their mother. However, it
can be said that the process of learning start from the birth but they communicate or transfer
the knowledge after few years, when they able to interact with the people. This will help the
children to develop their social skills and knowledge and also help them to enhance their
emotional and psychological awareness about the society and people (Shutts, Kinzler, &
DeJesus, 2013). The ability of sharing knowledge, interacting with people, and establish
relationship generally take few years in children. However, the development of social and
psychological skills in small children generally starts after 2 or 3 years of age.
It has been seen that the young children always showing a variety of emotional
activities like temper tantrums, angry, crying, and love which are directly relate to the
emotional development of children. It has been seen that toddlers often show a massive and
rapid mood swing and their emotions are occurring for very short times but they are quite
intense in nature (Chaplin & Aldao, 2013). Especially the modern children while watching
television or using mobile phone, they show their emotions in more mature way. However,
children in early stage of their childhood facing difficulties in showing their emotions and it
have been observed that they show very possessive behaviour. However, in early stage of
childhood (0-5 years), children spend most of their time with their parents, toys, friends, and
in kid schools. They learn lots of thing during this age such as playing, interacting, learning,
and enjoying with other kids. They also understand the feelings and emotions of their parents
and loving ones like their friends and family members (Palmer, Anand, Graff, Murphy, Qu,
Völgyi, & Tylavsky, 2013). However, these skill development in children prepare the
children for school readiness and prepare them to understand the physique of other people,
they understand that how they can interact with people, and transitioning easily from one
activity to another activity in very easy way. However, when children develop and grow in
the social environmental factors like friends and their family members, they also learn how