Children's Recognition of Fairness and Others' Welfare in a Resource Allocation Task: Age Related Changes

Autor/inn/en	Rizzo, Michael T.; Elenbaas, Laura; Cooley, Shelby; Killen, Melanie
Titel	Children's Recognition of Fairness and Others' Welfare in a Resource Allocation Task: Age Related Changes
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 52 (2016) 8, S.1307-1317 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000134
Schlagwörter	Children; Age Differences; Resource Allocation; Justice; Well Being; Logical Thinking; Moral Values; Decision Making + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ressourcenallokation; Gerechtigkeit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	The present study investigated age-related changes regarding children's (N = 136) conceptions of fairness and others' welfare in a merit-based resource allocation paradigm. To test whether children at 3- to 5-years-old and 6- to 8-years-old took others' welfare into account when dividing resources, in addition to merit and equality concerns, children were asked to allocate, judge, and reason about allocations of necessary (needed to avoid harm) and luxury (enjoyable to have) resources to a hardworking and a lazy character. While 3- to 5-year-olds did not differentiate between distributing luxury and necessary resources, 6- to 8-year-olds allocated luxury resources more meritoriously than necessary resources. Further, children based their allocations of necessary resources on concerns for others' welfare, rather than merit, even when one character was described as working harder. The findings revealed that, with age, children incorporated the concerns for others' welfare and merit into their conceptions of fairness in a resource allocation context, and prioritized these concerns differently depending on whether they were allocating luxury or necessary resources. Further, with age, children weighed multiple moral concerns including equality, merit, and others' welfare, when determining the fair allocation of resources. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01