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Li Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
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Metzger, Aaron; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2009
Judgments and justifications for different forms of civic involvement and their associations with organized and civic behavior were examined in 312 middle-class primarily White adolescents (M = 17.01 years). Adolescents applied moral, conventional, and personal criteria to distinguish involvement in community service, standard political, social…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Citizen Participation, Adolescents, Organizations (Groups)
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Ermalinski, Richard; Ruscelli, Vincent – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Lower Class, Males, Middle Class, Moral Values