Two studies investigated the role of children's moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported behavior self- sympathy. Moral was assessed by emotion attributions reasoning following hypothetical transgressions a representative longitudinal sample Swiss 6-year-old children (N = 1,273). Prosocial increased with increasing sympathy, especially if displayed low motivation. were also independently related to 2 extended findings second 175) using...

The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's ambiguous situations. Moral judgments were measured using rule transgressions. Social teachers' ratings aggressive prosocial behaviour. Aggressive positively related negatively reasoning. Prosocial associated with attribution...

We investigated if group music training in childhood is associated with prosocial skills. Children 3rd or 4th grade who attended 10 months of lessons taught groups were compared to a control children matched for socio-economic status. All administered tests skills near the beginning and end 10-month period. Compared group, had larger increases sympathy behavior, but this effect was limited poor before began. The evident even when compulsory, which minimized role self-selection. results...

This article reports the effectiveness of two universal prevention programs in reducing externalizing behavior elementary school children. A sample 1,675 first graders 56 Swiss schools was randomly assigned to a school-based social competence intervention, parental training both, or control. Externalizing psychopathology and ratings were provided by children, primary caregivers, teachers at beginning end 2-year program, with follow-up 2 years later. Intention-to-treat analyses revealed that...

This study investigated different facets of moral development in bullies, victims, and bully‐victims among Swiss adolescents. Extending previous research, we focused on both bullying victimization relation to adolescents’ morally disengaged responsible reasoning as well emotion attributions. A total 516 adolescents aged 12–18 (57% females) reported the frequency involvement victimization. Participants were categorized bullies (14.3%), (3.9%), victims (9.7%). Moral judgment, justifications,...

This chapter presents a brief introduction to the developmental and educational literature linking children's moral emotions cognitive development. A central premise of is that an integrative perspective on cognition provides important conceptual framework for understanding emerging morality designing developmentally sensitive intervention strategies. The subsequent chapters present promising approaches empirical evidence cognition. Examples integrated interventions intended enhance...

This study investigated the role of moral emotions in development children's sharing behavior (N = 244 4-, 8-, and 12-year-old children). Children's sympathy was measured with both self- primary caregiver-reports, participants anticipated their negatively positively valenced (i.e., feeling guilty, sad, or bad; proud, happy, good) following actions that either violated upheld norms. Sharing through allocation resources dictator game. self-reported emerged as a significant predictor early...

Objectives: This study explores the social and developmental antecedents of legal cynicism. comprises a range indicators organized into four domains—bonds to institutions, predispositions, experiences, delinquent involvement—that bear on theoretically plausible mechanisms involved in development Methods: examines pathways cynicism using data from two waves Zurich Project Social Development Children Youths ( N = 1,226). Ordinary least squares (OLS) procedures are used regress at t 2 (age 15)...

Previous research has shown that the majority of 8-year-old children share valuable resources equally with others, whereas 4-year-olds are more likely to favor themselves in their sharing allocations. In this study, we examine whether these patterns behavior affected by needs recipient or recipient’s previous moral immoral actions. One-hundred and sixty 4- had opportunity stickers hypothetical recipients who were assigned varying characteristics. For both age groups, increased when needy...

This study examines whether German and Portuguese 5‐ to 6‐, 8‐ 9‐year‐old children distinguish between the feelings attributed a victimizer or themselves if they were victimizers in two hypothetical moral violations (stealing breaking promise), how morally evaluate emotions attribute person of victimizer. The results showed that spite some developmental cultural differences, children's attribution negative was substantively more frequent when made attributions themselves. Furthermore, most...

Abstract Aggressive and prosocial children's emotion attributions moral reasoning were investigated. Participants 235 kindergarten children ( M =6.2 years) 136 elementary‐school =7.6 who selected as aggressive or based on (kindergarten) teacher ratings. The asked to evaluate hypothetical rule violations, attribute emotions they would feel in the role of victimizer, justify their responses. Compared with younger children, attributed fewer negative more likely provide sanction‐oriented...

Abstract We examined the role of parental support to children's sympathy, moral emotion attribution, and reasoning trajectories in a three‐wave longitudinal study Swiss children at 6 years age ( N = 175; Time 1), 7 (Time 2), 9 3). Sympathy was assessed with self‐report measures. Moral attributions were measured responses hypothetical transgressions. Parental all assessment points primary caregiver child reports. Three trajectory classes sympathy identified: high‐stable, average‐increasing,...

Adolescents’ social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, personality, were measured a sample of 12‐ 15‐year‐old Swiss non‐Swiss adolescents ( N = 247). Overall, judged based on nationality as less acceptable than gender or personality. Non‐Swiss participants, however, who reflected newly immigrated children to Switzerland, viewed more wrong did participants attributed positive emotions the excluder participants. Girls personality contexts...

This study examined the role of sympathy, guilt, and moral reasoning in helping, cooperation, sharing a 6‐year, three‐wave longitudinal involving 175 children ( M age 6.10, 9.18, 12.18 years). Primary caregivers reported on children's helping cooperation; was assessed behaviorally. Child sympathy by self‐ teacher reports, self‐attributed feelings guilt–sadness were responses to transgression vignettes. Sympathy predicted sharing. Guilt–sadness interacted with predicting both associated...

Previous research suggests a link between the quality of teacher-student relationships and students' behavioral outcomes; however, observational nature past studies makes it difficult to attribute causal role these relationships. In current study, therefore, we used propensity score analysis approach evaluate whether students who were matched on their experience given level relationship but differed actual diverged concurrent subsequent problem prosocial behavior. Student/self, teacher,...

This theoretical article aims to introduce a new conceptual framework for the understanding and enhancement of child adolescent social-emotional development (SED). We first elaborate on taxonomy classify core dimensions SED make case its importance. Next, we our developmental approach study as why there is need connect theory research systematically with use assessment tools. briefly describe holistic student (HSA) an example such tool through which children, teachers, caregivers report SED....