Psychological Development and Education ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (4): 15-21.

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The Correlation between Moral Concept and Behavior of Primary School Children--Under the Circumstances of the Conflict between Honest Principle and Collectivistic Value

WANG Ling-feng1, FU Gen-yue2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Huzhou Teachers College, Zhejiang 313000;
    2. Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhu 321004
  • Online:2007-10-15 Published:2007-10-15

Abstract: To explore the correlation between moral concept and behavior of primary school children under the circumstances of the conflict between honest principle and collectivistic value,585 7-,9-,and 11-year-old children were investigated.The results showed that under the circumstances of conflict between honest principle and collectivistic value,only a small proportion of primary school children (not more than 30 %) lied for collective.It reflected that primary school children's moral actions were mostly dominated by honest principle.The results also revealed that more and more children lied for collective as their age increased,and that their action of lying for collective had no significant gender differences.Meanwhile,our research showed that there was no relationship between collective lie action and collective concept of 7- and 9-year-olds children,and that collective lie action was markedly and positively related to collective concept of 11-year-olds children.

Key words: collective lie action, collective concept, circumstances of conflict, correlation

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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