Children's Conscience during Toddler and Preschool Years, Moral Self, and a Competent, Adaptive Developmental Trajectory

Autor/inn/en	Kochanska, Grazyna; Koenig, Jamie L.; Barry, Robin A.; Kim, Sanghag; Yoon, Jeung Eun
Titel	Children's Conscience during Toddler and Preschool Years, Moral Self, and a Competent, Adaptive Developmental Trajectory
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 5, S.1320-1332 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0020381
Schlagwörter	Socialization; Antisocial Behavior; Toddlers; Moral Values; Empathy; Developmental Psychology; Models; Interviews; Moral Development; Longitudinal Studies; Child Development; Children; Preschool Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socialisation; Sozialisation; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Empathie; Entwicklungspsychologie; Analogiemodell; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Moralische Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Kindesentwicklung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung
Abstract	We investigated whether children's robust conscience, formed during early family socialization, promotes their future adaptive and competent functioning in expanded ecologies. We assessed two dimensions of conscience in young children (N = 100) at 25, 38, and 52 months in scripted laboratory contexts: internalization of their mothers' and fathers' rules, observed when the child was alone, and empathic concern toward each parent, observed in simulated distress paradigms. We also assessed the child's self-perception on moral dimensions (the "moral self"), using a puppet interview at 67 months. At 80 months, parents and teachers produced an overall measure of competent, adaptive functioning by rating children on multiple scales of competent, prosocial, rule-abiding behavior and antisocial behavior. As expected, children with histories of a stronger internalization of both parents' rules were more competent and better socialized; for maternal rules, that link was mediated by the child's moral self. The link between the child's history of empathy toward the mother and future socialization was also significant, but it was not mediated by the moral self. This study elucidates the roles of classic components of morality--moral conduct, affect, and self--as antecedents of an adaptive developmental trajectory from toddler to early school age. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10