We set up a cross-sectional study to investigate how moral core self's mental representations develop from age 3 to 6 years. An ad hoc instrument (Moral Short Played Stories Procedure; MSPSP) was developed to tap into how moral emotions, conducts, and cognitions referred to moral and nonmoral characters. A total of 143 preschoolers completed the MSPSP and moral dilemmas procedures, together with attachment and behavioral inhibition assessment. The main results confirm the hypothesis of a mild developmental trend characterized by the prominence of moral conduct over moral emotion and cognition. In addition, our results stress the emergence of a developmental turning point at around age 4 when procedural moral activation in children predicts the declarative feature of moral conscience.
Early moral conscience: the development of a moral short played stories procedure / Nicolais, Giampaolo; Fazeli-Fariz Hendi, Sara; Presaghi, Fabio; Modesti, Camilla. - In: INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL. - ISSN 0163-9641. - STAMPA. - 38:3(2017), pp. 391-405. [10.1002/imhj.21640]
Early moral conscience: the development of a moral short played stories procedure
Nicolais, Giampaolo;Fazeli-Fariz Hendi, Sara;Presaghi, Fabio;Modesti, Camilla
2017
Abstract
We set up a cross-sectional study to investigate how moral core self's mental representations develop from age 3 to 6 years. An ad hoc instrument (Moral Short Played Stories Procedure; MSPSP) was developed to tap into how moral emotions, conducts, and cognitions referred to moral and nonmoral characters. A total of 143 preschoolers completed the MSPSP and moral dilemmas procedures, together with attachment and behavioral inhibition assessment. The main results confirm the hypothesis of a mild developmental trend characterized by the prominence of moral conduct over moral emotion and cognition. In addition, our results stress the emergence of a developmental turning point at around age 4 when procedural moral activation in children predicts the declarative feature of moral conscience.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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