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Children's Conscience during Toddler and Preschool Years, Moral Self, and a Competent, Adaptive Developmental Trajectory
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Koenig, Jamie L.; Barry, Robin A.; Kim, Sanghag; Yoon, Jeung Eun – Developmental Psychology, 2010
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'…
Descriptors: Socialization, Antisocial Behavior, Toddlers, Moral Values
Resistance to Temptation: Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Effects of Models
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Rosenkoetter, Lawrence I. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
It is concluded that while models can serve as agents of inhibition, their inhibitory effect is less pronounced than their disinhibitory effect. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Imitation, Inhibition, Models
Data Can Inform the Theoretical Skew in Moral Psychology: A Rejoinder to Hart.
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Walker, Lawrence J.; Pitts, Russell C. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Argues that the field of moral psychology is theoretically skewed and lacks a comprehensive model of moral functioning and a compelling conception of moral excellence. Contends that common language understandings of moral maturity are inherently interesting because they affect everyday moral functioning. Concludes that disjunctions between…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Models, Moral Development, Moral Values
Gender and Dilemma Differences in Real-Life Moral Judgment.
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Wark, Gillian R.; Krebs, Dennis L. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Investigated the effects of gender, gender role, and type of moral dilemma on moral maturity and orientation of university students. Found that females were more consistent than males in moral stage; males were more consistent in moral orientation. Findings suggest that a more interactional model of moral judgment than the models of L. Kohlberg…
Descriptors: College Students, Models, Moral Development, Moral Values
The Consolidation/Transition Model in Moral Reasoning Development.
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Walker, Lawrence J.; Gustafson, Paul; Hennig, Karl H. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
This longitudinal study with 62 children and adolescents examined the validity of the consolidation/transition model in the context of moral reasoning development. Results of standard statistical and Bayesian techniques supported the hypotheses regarding cyclical patterns of change and predictors of stage transition, and demonstrated the utility…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
Developmental Processes in Social Inference: Averaging of Intentions and Consequences in Moral Judgment
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Surber, Colleen F. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Two experiments tested the applicability of Anderson's relative-weight averaging model to children's moral judgments based on intentions and consequences. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Higher Education
Short-Term Longitudinal Evidence for the Sequentiality of Kohlberg's Early Stages of Moral Judgment
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Kuhn, Deanna – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Studied the establishment of the reliability of an instrument for assessing developmental stages and the relation between reliability and sequentiality of the stages. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Longitudinal Studies
Abstraction, Inference, and Acceptance in Children's Processing of an Adult Model's Moral Judgments.
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Harvey, Susan E.; Liebert, Robert M. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
The effects of a common dimension within a model's performance on different aspects of observational learning were examined in two experiments. Subjects were 220 second-grade children. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Committee Compliance, Moral Self, and Internalization: A Mediational Model.
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Kochanska, Grazyna – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Used observations and interview of mothers and children to test a mediational model in which committed compliance and opposition influence the child's emerging view of self on moral dimensions and this "moral self" regulates moral conduct. Found that the model, involving committed compliance and opposition in the "don't" demand…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Compliance (Psychology), Longitudinal Studies, Models
The Relationship between Moral Decision Making and Patterns of Consolidation and Transition in Moral Judgment Development.
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Thoma, Stephen J.; Rest, James R. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Assessed the relationship between a measure of consolidation and transition in moral-judgment development and utility of moral concepts in sociomoral decision making in multiple cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. Found that participants' reliance on a Kohlbergian moral framework was highest during periods of consolidation and lowest during…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Decision Making