Aggressive and Nonaggressive Children's Moral Judgments and Moral Emotion Attributions in Situations Involving Retaliation and Unprovoked Aggression

Autor/inn/en	Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline
Titel	Aggressive and Nonaggressive Children's Moral Judgments and Moral Emotion Attributions in Situations Involving Retaliation and Unprovoked Aggression
Quelle	In: Journal of Genetic Psychology, 173 (2012) 4, S.417-439 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1325
DOI	10.1080/00221325.2011.614650
Schlagwörter	Aggression; Moral Values; Attribution Theory; Children; Comparative Analysis; Child Behavior; Emotional Response; Interviews; Psychological Patterns; Victims + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Child; Kind; Kinder; Emotionales Verhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Victim; Opfer
Abstract	The authors investigated 7- and 9-year-old children's moral understanding of retaliation as compared to unprovoked aggression with regard to their aggressive behavior status. Based on peer ratings, 48 children were selected as overtly aggressive and 91 as nonaggressive. Their moral understanding of retaliation and unprovoked aggression was assessed by an interview including questions about their moral judgments and emotion attributions. Aggressive children judged retaliations as less serious than did nonaggressive children. They also referred less often to the harmful consequences of retaliation and were more likely to excuse the retaliation because of the provocation. In unprovoked aggressive situations younger aggressive children, compared with the younger nonaggressive children, attributed more happiness to transgressors, more anger to victims, and less sadness to transgressors and victims. The results are discussed in terms of previous research on aggressive children's moral understanding of retaliation and unprovoked aggression. (Contains 5 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10