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- Title
Children's Sympathy, Guilt, and Moral Reasoning in Helping, Cooperation, and Sharing: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study.
- Authors
Malti, Tina; Ongley, Sophia F.; Peplak, Joanna; Chaparro, Maria P.; Buchmann, Marlis; Zuffianò, Antonio; Cui, Lixian
- Abstract
This study examined the role of sympathy, guilt, and moral reasoning in helping, cooperation, and sharing in a 6-year, three-wave longitudinal study involving 175 children (Mage 6.10, 9.18, and 12.18 years). Primary caregivers reported on children's helping and cooperation; sharing was assessed behaviorally. Child sympathy was assessed by self- and teacher reports, and self-attributed feelings of guilt-sadness and moral reasoning were assessed by children's responses to transgression vignettes. Sympathy predicted helping, cooperation, and sharing. Guilt-sadness and moral reasoning interacted with sympathy in predicting helping and cooperation; both sympathy and guilt-sadness were associated with the development of sharing. The findings are discussed in relation to the emergence of differential motivational pathways to helping, cooperation, and sharing.
- Subjects
GUILT in children; SYMPATHY; MORAL reasoning; HELPING behavior in children; COOPERATIVENESS in children; SHARING in children; LONGITUDINAL method; CHILD development; CHILD behavior; COOPERATIVENESS; EMPATHY; ETHICS; GUILT (Psychology); SOCIAL skills; THOUGHT &; thinking
- Publication
Child Development, 2016, Vol 87, Issue 6, p1783
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12632