Children's Reasoning about the Refusal to Help: The Role of Need, Costs, and Social Perspective Taking

Autor/inn/en	Sierksma, Jellie; Thijs, Jochem; Verkuyten, Maykel; Komter, Aafke
Titel	Children's Reasoning about the Refusal to Help: The Role of Need, Costs, and Social Perspective Taking
Quelle	In: Child Development, 85 (2014) 3, S.1134-1149 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12195
Schlagwörter	Children; Early Adolescents; Interviews; Help Seeking; Helping Relationship; Peer Relationship; Social Attitudes; Parenting Styles; Reciprocal Teaching; Student Attitudes; Moral Values; Age Differences; Cost Effectiveness; Student Needs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Helfende Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Schülerverhalten; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken
Abstract	Children (n = 133, aged 8-13) were interviewed about helping situations that systematically varied in recipient's need for help and the costs for the helper. In situations where helping a peer involved low costs, children perceived a moral obligation to help that was independent of peer norms, parental authority, and reciprocity considerations. When helping a peer involved high costs this overpowered the perceived obligation to help, but only in situations involving low need and when in line with reciprocity. When both need and costs were high, younger children expressed stronger moral indignation while older children were less negative and reasoned in terms of other solutions. Furthermore, stronger moral indignation was related to more advanced social perspective taking skills when need and costs were high. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10