Are the Competent the Morally Good? Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation of Children Involved in Bullying

Autor/inn/en	Gasser, Luciano; Keller, Monika
Titel	Are the Competent the Morally Good? Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation of Children Involved in Bullying
Quelle	In: Social Development, 18 (2009) 4, S.798-816 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00516.x
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Perspective Taking; Motivation; Bullying; Hypothesis Testing; Cognitive Ability; Moral Development; Classification; Prosocial Behavior; Task Analysis; Cognitive Processes; Social Development; Moral Values; Attribution Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zukunftsperspektive; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Mobbing; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Denkfähigkeit; Moralische Entwicklung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Aufgabenanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Soziale Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert
Abstract	The present study tested the hypothesis of the cognitively competent but morally insensitive bully. On the basis of teacher and peer ratings, 212 young elementary school children were selected and categorized as bullies, bully-victims, victims, and prosocial children. Children's perspective-taking skills were assessed using theory-of-mind tasks, and moral motivation was assessed with a task about moral emotion attributions after moral rule transgressions. Analyses at the group level revealed that only bully-victims, but not bullies, were characterized by a deficit in perspective taking, while both aggressive groups showed a deficit in moral motivation. Analyses at the individual level, however, revealed that bullies were a more heterogeneous group, including children with an asymmetry between perspective taking and moral motivation, as well as children scoring consistently low or high on both measures. The findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between (1) strategic social-cognitive and moral competencies and (2) different subgroups of bullies. (As Provided).
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