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Midgette, Allegra – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
Previous research has found that when children engage in social and moral transgressions, they take steps to either remedy or explain their behavior. However, no prior systematic investigation has examined the strategies children employ to 'correct' their behavior in future situations. The present study employed a domain theory lens to investigate…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Child Development, Moral Values, Social Development
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Recchia, Holly E.; Brehl, Beverly A.; Wainryb, Cecilia – Cognitive Development, 2012
The goal of this study was to investigate children's descriptions and evaluations of their reasons for leaving others out of a peer group. A total of 84 children (divided into 7-, 11-, and 17-year-old age groups) provided a narrative account of a time they excluded a peer and were subsequently asked to evaluate their reasons for exclusion. With…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Peer Groups, Cognitive Development, Moral Development
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Gieling, Maike; Thijs, Jochem; Verkuyten, Maykel – Child Development, 2010
Using social-cognitive domain theory and social identity theory, tolerance judgments of practices by Muslim actors among Dutch adolescents (12-17) were investigated. The findings for Study 1 (N = 180) demonstrated that participants evaluated 4 practices using different types of reasons: personal, social-conventional, and moral. In Study 2 (N =…
Descriptors: Muslims, Moral Issues, Cultural Pluralism, Public Support
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Ardila-Rey, Alicia; Killen, Melanie; Brenick, Alaina – Social Development, 2009
In order to assess the effects of displacement and exposure to violence on children's moral reasoning, Colombian children exposed to minimal violence (non-displaced or low risk; N = 99) and to extreme violence (displaced or high risk; N = 94), evenly divided by gender at 6, 9, and 12 years of age, were interviewed regarding their evaluation of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Development, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Whiteman, Martin – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
The problems examined in this study were (1) age differences in grasp of psychological causality during middle childhood, (2) the exploration of possible mediating abilities of a physical-logical nature accounting for such age differences and (3) relations between cognition of psychological causality and intentionality in moral judgment.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Elementary Education
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Freeman, Evelyn B.; Daly, Jilliann – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Investigates the relationship between distributive justice, immanent justice, and egocentricism for 21 preschoolers and 24 second graders. These concepts were assessed using the Distribution Justice Scale, immanent justice stories, and an adaptation of Piaget's mountain task. Results indicated significant main effects for age and a significant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Egocentrism, Grade 2, Justice
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Mancuso, James C.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Elementary School Students, Evaluation
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Graziano, William G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Results showed that first-grade children were less likely to follow a task-based fair-play rule than were third graders when one of the other children was larger and older. When dealing with same-size age-mates, however, first graders were no less likely to follow a task-based rule than were third graders. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Over one year, mothers observed the responses of their one-year-old children to distresses the children caused and witnessed in others. Children's prosocial behaviors, and reparative behaviors after they had caused distress, increased in frequency over the year. These behaviors were accompanied by changes in self-recognition. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Empathy, Infants
Morrison, James K. – 1973
This document presents a summary of a dissertation concerning the developmental relationship between moral judgment and person judgment. Subjects were 144 middle class male first graders and sixth graders from paroachial schools. The children watched three films of a boy doing damage. The experimentally crucial film showed the same boy…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Students
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Enright, Robert D.; Lapsley, Daniel K. – Child Development, 1981
Examined judgments of intolerance given by children, adolescents, and adults toward disagreeing others. The evidence suggested that intolerance may be a lower level of reasoning in a social cognitive developmental progression. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Olejnik, Anthony B. – 1975
This study investigated the interrelationships among the development of role-taking skills, moral judgments, and sharing behavior of boys and girls in K-3. A total of 160 lower middle class white children (20 boys and 20 girls from each grade) participated in the study. Data were collected on four measures: (1) sharing candy with a friend, (2)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Cognitive Development, Correlation
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Krebs, Elfriede – Contemporary Education, 1983
This study investigated the relationships among vocational, moral, and social development in ninth- and twelfth-grade students to clarify the psychological and psychosocial nature of vocational maturity. The effects of age differences and sex differences are discussed. (PP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Jones, Elaine F.; Nelson-Le Gall, Sharon – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Two studies explored preschool, second-, and fifth-grade children's moral and dispositional judgments as influenced by an actor's efforts. Findings indicated that older children's judgments and predictions reflected coordination of the actor's effort with information about the actor's anticipated goal. Preschool children focused more on the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Elementary School Students, Intention
Graziano, William G. – 1977
The present study investigated the hypothesis that children do not use the same standards of fair play in mixed-age situations as in same-age situations. It was further hypothesized that in mixed-age encounters, younger children would use cues associated with older children (i.e., physical size) as a basis for reward deservingness. Older children,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Behavior Standards, Behavioral Science Research