Crianças de dois a quatro anos de idade: conflitos e sua resolução

Abstract

With this work we intended to characterize the different forms of conflict between 2 to 4 year old children, and their resolution. Data on the sex and behavior of protagonists and third parties involved in 249 episodes of conflict were registered using the all occurrences sampling method. Boys initiated a greater number of conflicts than girls (214 and 35). No gender differences were found in relation to the initial category, to the first response of the victim, to the form of resolution, and to the frequency of interferences from the teacher. The initial behavior within the conflict was not dependent with the form of resolution, but it was with the first response of the victim: aggression was more frequently followed by aggression; objection was the most common response to disputes involving objects. Affiliative behavior between protagonists occurred in 42 % of the episodes. There was no dependency between the occurrence of affiliation and the gender of protagonists. A direct logistic regression indicated that the involvement of a third party, and the separation of adversaries are negatively correlated to the occurrence of affiliation following.