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Moral Reasoning in Violent Contexts: Displaced and Non-Displaced Colombian Children's Evaluations of Moral Transgressions, Retaliation, and Reconciliation
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Ardila-Rey, Alicia; Killen, Melanie; Brenick, Alaina – Social Development, 2009
In order to assess the effects of displacement and exposure to violence on children's moral reasoning, Colombian children exposed to minimal violence (non-displaced or low risk; N = 99) and to extreme violence (displaced or high risk; N = 94), evenly divided by gender at 6, 9, and 12 years of age, were interviewed regarding their evaluation of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Development, Moral Development, Moral Values
Are the Competent the Morally Good? Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation of Children Involved in Bullying
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Gasser, Luciano; Keller, Monika – Social Development, 2009
The present study tested the hypothesis of the cognitively competent but morally insensitive bully. On the basis of teacher and peer ratings, 212 young elementary school children were selected and categorized as bullies, bully-victims, victims, and prosocial children. Children's perspective-taking skills were assessed using theory-of-mind tasks,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Perspective Taking, Motivation, Bullying
Varieties of Childhood Bullying: Values, Emotion Processes and Social Competence.
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Arsenio, William F.; Lemerise, Elizabeth A. – Social Development, 2001
Summarizes the main debate points on the issue and nature of bullies and bullying, and clarifies unresolved issues concerning the nature and limits of social competence values. Argues that variations in children's emotion processes may underlie some individual differences that have been found in empathy, social information processing, and reactive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior, Children