Socio-Emotional

Development
in Middle Childhood

Presented by: Ms. Patricia Pamintuan

Ms. Jessabelle De Ocampo
 Table of contents
Social, Emotional,
Introduction and Moral
01 02 Development During
Middle Childhood

The Society of
Self Concept
Children
03 04
 05 Gender Identity

06 Self Efficacy

Table of
07 Common Problems
contents
08 Resilience

09 Conclusion
Let's go!
Introduction to Middle Childhood
Introduction to
Middle Childhood
As children grow older, they acquire
experiences that enable them to have a
better understanding of themselves
including their capabilities and
limitations. This forming self concept is
influenced by:
● family,
● peers, and
● the environment
02
Social, Emotional, and
Moral Development
During Middle
Childhood
Theories
Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

Industry inferiority
● Children are in the ● If a child feels that they
middle childhood are are not measuring up to
very busy. They are their peers, they can
constantly doing, develop a feeling of
planning, playing, making inferiority and self doubt.
friends, and achieving. ● Inferiority complex can
● When children perceive last up to adulthood.
success in their industry
they are likely to develop
a sense of competence.
 Freud’s Psychosexual
Development: The Latency
Stage
● The 4th stage of the psychosexual
development
● Starts around age 6 and lasts until puberty
● All pleasure from erogenous zones are
repressed - hence the stage name, latency.
● in this stage all development and
stimulation come from external sources
such as education, social relationships, and
hobbies.
 Kohlberg’s Moral Development
Pre-Conventional
Stage one:Focus is on the
direct consequences of their
actions. Their main concern is
avoiding punishment and being
obedient.
Stage two: Focus is “what’s in it
for me”? The mentality is
self-interest driven.
Conventional
Stage three: Focus is on what
society deems okay or good in
order to gain approval from
others.
Stage four: Focus is on
maintaining social order.
Post-Conventional
Stage five: the person realizes
that not everything is black and
white. The idea is to do the most
good for the most people.
Stage six: The person tries to
empathize with other people
and to see the world from the
other person’s perspective
before making a decision.
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Self
Concept
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Self Concept
Sense of Self
Children in middle childhood have a more
realistic sense of self than do those in early
childhood.

Strength and Weaknesses

That exaggerated sense of self gives way to an
understanding of one’s strengths and weaknesses.
This can be attributed to greater experience in
comparing one’s own performance with that of
others and to greater cognitive flexibility.

External Influences
A child’s self-concept can be influenced by peers,
family, teachers, and the messages they send about
a child’s worth. Contemporary children also receive
messages from the media about how they should
look and act.
04
The Society of
Children
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The Society of Children
Peer Relationships
children learn how to initiate and maintain social interactions with
other children. They learn skills for managing conflict, such as
turn-taking, compromise, and bargaining. Play and communication
also involve the mutual, sometimes complex, coordination of
goals, actions, and understanding.

Family Relationships
During middle childhood, children start to spend less
time with parents and more time with peers. Parents
often find that they have to modify their approach to
parenting to accommodate the child’s growing
independence.
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Gender
Identity
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 Gender
Identity
In middle childhood
boys strengthen their
identification with the
masculine role while
girls become more
androgynous.
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Self Efficacy
● Self-efficacy is the belief that you are capable of
performing a task or managing a situation. It is
about learning how to persevere when one does
not succeed at first.
 ● Family members and peers play a significant role in

the development of self-efficacy among children in

middle childhood. Support provided by parent and

Self Efficacy
peers is a major motivation that makes children

believe that they can achieve. According to

Erikson’s theory, the achievement of goals boosts a

child’s self-efficacy. On the other hand, failure

lowers self-esteem and a child’s self-efficacy.

●
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Common
Problems
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 Common Problems
Children in this age
group may struggle
with these new
changes in their
bodies and feelings. In
addition, teasing and
bullying can start
around this stage of
development.
Behavioral changes Children in middle
during middle childhood may begin
childhood can to struggle with
mental health issues
include mood
such as anxiety,
swings, aggression depression, suicidal
and anger, and ideation, eating
beginning to favor disorders, and
peer interaction behavioral issues.
over parents.

peer pressure also become more

common.
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Resilience

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Resilience
Resilient children have the ability to overcome
mistakes, frustration, and failure, and have the
capacity to try again.
Conclusion
—
 In summary…
Middle childhood is a complex period of the
life span. New ways of learning and social
situations provides opportunities and poses
challenges in the children’s lives as they
create strategies of dealing with the world
ahead.

We have learned that as the child’s sense of

self deepens, their social bonds broadens and
greatly influence their emotional and moral
development.
 “Children are human beings to whom
respect is due, superior to us by reason
of their innocence and of the greater
possibilities of their future”

—Maria Montessori
Thank you!
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