The More Familiar the Others, the Higher the Morality: Children's Preference for Familiar Others in Moral Expectations Early Appears in the Negative Moral Context

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Wenjie; Liang, Geying; Guo, Zimei; Liu, Yi; Fan, Wei
Titel	The More Familiar the Others, the Higher the Morality: Children's Preference for Familiar Others in Moral Expectations Early Appears in the Negative Moral Context
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 192 (2022) 11, S.1842-1855 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Wenjie) ORCID (Fan, Wei)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2021.1945048
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Age Differences; Young Children; Expectation; Social Influences; Interpersonal Relationship; Familiarity; Social Distance; Context Effect; Kindergarten; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Frühe Kindheit; Expectancy; Erwartung; Sozialer Einfluss; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland
Abstract	In order to explore the development mechanism of construction theory in the field of moral judgment, this study investigated the influence of age and social distance on such moral expectations in positive moral context and negative moral context. In both positive and negative moral contexts, 5-6-year-old children had the highest moral expectations of people who are socially closest to them. In negative moral contexts, 3-4-year-old children had significantly higher moral expectations of people who are socially closest to them, whereas in positive moral contexts, no significant difference was noted in their moral expectations of others for various degrees of social distance. These findings suggest that children have lower moral expectations of strangers and exhibit a preference for familiar person in moral expectations as they grow older. And this preference was first observed in contexts which the child thought that someone close to him or her was less likely to do immoral things in negative moral context than to do moral things in positive moral contexts. In conclusion, our study provides empirical evidence for construction theory in the field of moral judgment, proving that social distance, age and moral context strongly affect children's moral expectations of others. (As Provided).
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