When Do Caregivers Begin to View Their Child as a Moral Agent? Comparing Moral and Non-Moral Reactions to Young Children's Moral Transgressions

Autor/inn/en	Essler, Samuel; Paulus, Markus
Titel	When Do Caregivers Begin to View Their Child as a Moral Agent? Comparing Moral and Non-Moral Reactions to Young Children's Moral Transgressions
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 50 (2021) 3, S.330-342 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Essler, Samuel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2020.1722622
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Caregiver Child Relationship; Child Development; Infants; Toddlers; Video Technology; Parent Child Relationship; Intuition; Parenting Styles; Age Differences; Child Behavior; Moral Development; Likert Scales; Parent Attitudes; Caregiver Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Kindesentwicklung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Moralische Entwicklung; Likert-Skala; Elternverhalten
Abstract	Caregivers' moral reactions to young children's moral transgressions are informative environmental responses for children's developing understanding of morality. One central question concerns by which age parents hold their children responsible for moral transgressions. This study indirectly investigated this question by having parents and non-parents (N = 150) rate the appropriateness of caregivers' moral and non-moral reactions to moral transgressions of 6-month-old, 1-year-old, 2-year-old, and 4-year-old children. Transgressions and reactions were presented as short video clips in an online survey. Results indicated that moral reactions were judged as increasingly appropriate and non-moral reactions as increasingly inappropriate with age. Two years constituted a turning point, after which moral reactions were judged as more appropriate than non-moral reactions. This pattern showed to be the same for parents and non-parents. These findings highlight the growing importance of moral reactions over the first years of life and lend support to theories of intuitive parenting. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01