Child development, 2009-03, Vol.80 (2), p.442-460
2009
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Children's Moral Motivation, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behavior
- Ist Teil von
- Child development, 2009-03, Vol.80 (2), p.442-460
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2009
- Quelle
- Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Two studies investigated the role of children's moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported prosocial behavior and self- and other-reported sympathy. Moral motivation was assessed by emotion attributions and moral reasoning following hypothetical transgressions in a representative longitudinal sample of Swiss 6-year-old children (N = 1,273). Prosocial behavior increased with increasing sympathy, especially if children displayed low moral motivation. Moral motivation and sympathy were also independently related to prosocial behavior. Study 2 extended the findings of Study 1 with a second longitudinal sample of Swiss 6-year-old children (N = 175) using supplementary measures of prosocial behavior, sympathy, and moral motivation. The results are discussed in regard to the precursors of the moral self in childhood.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0009-3920eISSN: 1467-8624DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01271.xTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67296759
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Altruism, Behavior, Biological and medical sciences, Caregivers, Child, Child Behavior, Child Development, Childhood, Children, Children & youth, Correlation, Developmental psychology, Emotional Response, Emotions, Empathy, Empirical Articles, Family studies, Female, Foreign Countries, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Humans, Kindergarten teachers, Logical Thinking, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Moral aspects, Moral development, Moral judgment, Moral Values, Morality, Morals, Mothers, Motivation, Motivation research, Prosocial Behavior, Prosocial behaviour, Psychological Patterns, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Self, Sex Factors, Social behaviour, Social Values, Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Switzerland, Sympathy, Young Children