Psychological Development and Education ›› 2003, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3): 29-34.

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5-9 Year-old Children’s Understanding Trait of Guilt Emotion

XU Qin-mei1, ZHANG Xiao-xian2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology and Behavior Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310028;
    2. Department of Education Science, Hangzhou Normal College, hangzhou 310036
  • Online:2003-07-15 Published:2003-07-15

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Abstract: The study discussed the influence of 5,7,9 years old children's moral evaluation of the transgression behavior to their understanding of guilt emotion.We want to find out that with the accompanier,children's under-standing trait of guilt emotion.The results demonstrate; (1) 5-9 years old children all gave the negative moral evaluation to the transgression behavior.They already have possessed the cognitive ability to produce guilt emotion.(2) a majority of all children attribute the emotion to the result of behavior,and they can't understand guilt emotion.

Key words: guilt, moral evaluation, understanding

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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