"That's Not Fair!": Children's Judgments of Moral Behavior and Maternal Fairness in Transgression Encounters
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Title
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"That's Not Fair!": Children's Judgments of Moral Behavior and Maternal Fairness in Transgression Encounters
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:981b46f85ea4:11653
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identifier
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12269
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Creator
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Johnston, Marla,
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Contributor
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Herbert Saltzstein
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Developmental psychology | Domain theory | Fairness | Maternal | Moral | Real-life | Transgression
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Abstract
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This study investigated how children evaluate good/bad and how they judge maternal reactions as fair/unfair. Of particular interest was whether evaluations and judgments during transgression encounters are influenced by the child's age, the domain in which the encounter occurs (Moral, Social-Conventional, Personal or Prudential), variations in story intention/outcome, and the mother's reaction to the transgression. Mothers of twenty-five 3-12 year old children documented multiple real-life discipline encounters they experienced with their child via online questionnaires. Three of each mother's self-reported encounters along with three additional hypothetical stories were coded for domain, written into a storybook format, and read to their child during in-person interviews. Each child evaluated how good/bad the protagonist of each story was and how fair/unfair the mother in the story was. Results indicate that older and younger children differ in their moral evaluations of encounters in the Moral, Social-Conventional, and Prudential domains. Evaluations of good/bad and fair/unfair vary as a function of age, story intention/outcome, and maternal reaction.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
