Characteristics of communication between modern preschoolers and their peers as a risk factor for the psychological safety of the kindergarten educational environment

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Abstract

Context and relevance. The problem of psychological safety has not lost its relevance and acuteness in recent years. One of the important components of a safe educational environment is to ensure the conditions for the realization of the need for communication with peers that is becoming relevant in the senior preschool age. Positive and productive interaction between children is an extremely important condition for the successful entry of each child into society, including the children's community, and the development of his personality. One of the important tasks for preschool education teachers is to create and maintain a safe educational environment conducive to the harmonious and stable development of communication between preschoolers and their peers. To create a system that will successfully solve this problem, it is extremely important to represent the current state of children's communication at preschool age, its main characteristics. Goal. Based on an analytical review of modern research, to identify the features of communication between preschoolers and their peers in order to determine its main characteristics and existing risks. Methods and materials. Theoretical analysis of sources, analytical and synthetic method of bibliographic search, generalization, method of comparative analysis. Using a bibliographic search, 572 sources were identified, from which 4 works meeting all criteria for the period from 2020 to 2025 were selected for analysis. Results. The analysis of the research has shown that there is a transformation of one of the most important conditions for the socialization and personal development of a child - communication with peers. The highlighted characteristics indicate a pronounced tendency towards impoverishment of means and methods, a decrease in the level of development of children's communication, and an increase in negative interaction features, which can create certain risks for socialization and personal development in the present and future. Conclusions. Communication between modern preschoolers and their peers is generally dysfunctional and contains serious risks for socialization and the formation of personally important psychological qualities. The picture of the peculiarities of communication between modern preschoolers and their peers raises the question of the need to create conditions that ensure the psychological safety of preschoolers. To solve practical problems, psychological studies of children's communication with each other are becoming necessary, which will allow us to obtain more reliable and reliable information.

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Keywords: modern preschooler, psychological safety, educational environment, communication with peers, risks of socialization disorders, risks of personality development

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/pse.2026000002

Funding. The article was prepared within the framework of the execution of state assignment No. 073-00070-25-03 for 2025 "Psychological, pedagogical and organizational conditions for the comprehensive safety of the educational environment of a modern preschool educational organization."

Received 15.09.2025

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For citation: Burlakova, I.A., Pristupa, E.N., Masalova, V.S., Osinenko, M.V. (2025). Characteristics of communication between modern preschoolers and their peers as a risk factor for the psychological safety of the kindergarten educational environment. Psychological Science and Education. Early Access. https://doi.org/10.17759/pse.2026000002

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Irina A. Burlakova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Professor, Head of the Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology Chair, Department of Educational Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Preschool Education, Institute of Child Development, Health and Adaptation (Federal State Scientific Institution IRZAR), Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0313-7518, e-mail: iaburlakova@mail.ru

Elena N. Pristupa, Doctor of Education, Director, Institute of child development, health and adaptation, Professor, Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Family Education at the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2654-5768, e-mail: en.pristupa@irzar.ru

Valentina S. Masalova, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Preschool Education Development, Institute of Child Development, Health and Adaptation (IRZAR), lecturer of the Department of "Age Psychology named after Professor L.F. Obukhova", Faculty of Educational Psychology , Moscow State University of Psychology and Education ( MSUPPE), Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3506-0225, e-mail: masalova.valentina@mail.ru

Maria V. Osinenko, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Preschool Education Development, Institute of Child Development, Health and Adaptation (IRZAR), Senior Lecturer, Department of Preschool Pedagogy, Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8831-9771, e-mail: mv.osinenko@irzar.ru

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