Children’s and adolescents’ moral emotion attributions and judgements about exclusion of peers with hearing impairments     

Jennifer Chilver-Stainer  Luciano Gasser  Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello 《Journal of moral education》2014,43(3):235-249

Children and adolescents with hearing impairments are at risk of being excluded from activities with hearing peers. Moral emotion attributions may represent important indicators for children’s identification with the moral norm not to exclude peers based on disability. Against this background, we investigated how 10-, 12- and 15-year-olds (N?=?215) feel and judge about social exclusion of peers with hearing impairments. Emotion attributions and moral judgements were assessed using four different hypothetical scenarios about the exclusion of peers with hearing impairments (school vs. leisure time, group vs. dyad). Moreover, children’s and adolescents’ inclusive behaviour was assessed by a peer nomination procedure. Results revealed that moral emotion attributions differed as a function of exclusion context and grade. Moreover, participants with inclusive behaviour attributed moral emotions more often than participants with less inclusive behaviour. Implications of the results for moral education are discussed.  相似文献   

Conflict between peers in infancy and toddler age: what do they fight about?     

Batya Licht  Heidi Simoni  Pasqualina Perrig‐Chiello 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2008,28(3):235-249

Although much psychological research has been conducted on children's conflicts with peers from as young as one year, very little attention has been paid to the question of the motivation underlying these conflicts. Nevertheless, what a child tries to achieve in a conflict can be highly relevant for understanding his/her conflict behavior, conflict resolution strategies, manner of coping with the outcome of conflicts, and impact of pedagogical intervention. Most researchers suppose that young children fight mainly over the possession of objects. In a longitudinal study, children were filmed during free play in daycare centers at ages 8, 14 and 22 months. Analyzing the film material employing qualitative methods, two different motivational themes at 8 months and an increasing variety of motivational issues at 14 and 22 months were identified. It was found that the earliest manifested and consistently dominant motivation is the need to explore, not to possess.  相似文献