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Moral Judgment and Cheating: Evidence of a Knowledge-Behavior Link in Early Childhood
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Li Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
Association of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Perinatal Maternal Depression with Early Childhood Behavioral Problems: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study
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Shuffrey, Lauren C.; Morales, Santiago; Jacobson, Melanie H.; Bosquet Enlow, Michelle; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Margolis, Amy E.; Lucchini, Maristella; Carroll, Kecia N.; Crum, Rosa M.; Dabelea, Dana; Deutsch, Arielle; Fifer, William P.; Goldson, Brandon; Hockett, Christine W.; Mason, W. Alex; Jacobson, Lisette T.; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Pini, Nicolò; Rayport, Yael; Sania, Ayesha; Trasande, Leonardo; Wright, Rosalind J.; Lee, Seonjoo; Monk, Catherine – Child Development, 2023
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American…
Descriptors: Young Children, Pregnancy, Diabetes, Mothers
Adolescent Civic and Political Engagement: Associations between Domain-Specific Judgments and Behavior
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Metzger, Aaron; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2009
Judgments and justifications for different forms of civic involvement and their associations with organized and civic behavior were examined in 312 middle-class primarily White adolescents (M = 17.01 years). Adolescents applied moral, conventional, and personal criteria to distinguish involvement in community service, standard political, social…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Citizen Participation, Adolescents, Organizations (Groups)
Young Children Selectively Avoid Helping People with Harmful Intentions
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Vaish, Amrisha; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Child Development, 2010
Two studies investigated whether young children are selectively prosocial toward others, based on the others' moral behaviors. In Study 1 (N = 54), 3-year-olds watched 1 adult (the actor) harming or helping another adult. Children subsequently helped the harmful actor less often than a third (previously neutral) adult, but helped the helpful and…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Young Children, Moral Values, Intention
Children's Moral Motivation, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behavior
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Malti, Tina; Gummerum, Michaela; Keller, Monika; Buchmann, Marlis – Child Development, 2009
Two studies investigated the role of children's moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported prosocial behavior and self- and other-reported sympathy. Moral motivation was assessed by emotion attributions and moral reasoning following hypothetical transgressions in a representative longitudinal sample of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Motivation, Child Behavior, Psychological Patterns
Social and Cognitive Correlates of Children's Lying Behavior
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Talwar, Victoria; Lee, Kang – Child Development, 2008
The relation between children's lie-telling and their social and cognitive development was examined. Children (3-8 years) were told not to peek at a toy. Most children peeked and later lied about peeking. Children's subsequent verbal statements were not always consistent with their initial denial and leaked critical information revealing their…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Deception, Child Behavior
When Victims Don't Cry: Children's Understandings of Victimization, Compliance, and Subversion
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Shaw, Leigh A.; Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 2006
How do children understand situations in which the targets of moral transgressions do not complain about the way they are treated? One-hundred and twenty participants aged 5, 7, 10, 13, and 16 years were interviewed about hypothetical situations in which one child ("transgressor") made an apparently unfair demand of another child ("victim"), who…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Child Development, Interviews, Compliance (Psychology)
Children's Narratives about Hypothetical Moral Dilemmas and Objective Measures of Their Conscience: Mutual Relations and Socialization Antecedents.
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Kochanska, Grazyna; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Explored children's conscience using narrative measures of responses to hypothetical moral dilemmas and objective measures. Found that children who experienced more power-assertive maternal discipline produced fewer themes of commitment to and concern about good behavior and were more poorly internalized on observed and mother-reported measures.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Behavior, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies