Children's and Adolescents' Tolerance for Divergent Beliefs: Exploring the Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Moral Conviction in Our Youth

Autor/in	Wright, Jennifer C.
Titel	Children's and Adolescents' Tolerance for Divergent Beliefs: Exploring the Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Moral Conviction in Our Youth
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30 (2012) 4, S.493-510 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02058.x
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Moral Values; Affective Behavior; Prosocial Behavior; Role; Prediction; Children; Cognitive Processes; Childhood Attitudes; Adolescent Attitudes; Classification; Surveys; Wyoming + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Rollen; Vorhersage; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	Moral conviction predicts interpersonal tolerance in adults, but its role in children and adolescents is not as well understood. This study measured moral conviction for a variety of issues along two separate dimensions--cognitive and affective--in children and adolescents (4th-12th grade). Results showed that, like adults, when children and adolescents view an issue as moral, this is strongly predictive of both age groups' discomfort with divergent beliefs. But only for adolescents, and not children, did moral conviction play a role in that discomfort, as had previously been found with adults. The context in which the divergent beliefs were encountered also mattered, but more for adolescents than for children--both groups were most comfortable with divergent beliefs when they were encountered in distal relations. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10