Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 252-258.

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6-to 10-Year-Old Children’s Moral Emotion Judgment and Attribution to the Actors in Victimizing Context

LI Zhan-xing1, CAO Xian-cai1, PANG Wei-guo2, NIU Yu-bai1   

  1. 1. Zhejiang Sci-tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    2. School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
  • Online:2014-05-15 Published:2014-05-15

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Abstract: Using the approach of clinical conversation as to the story's context, this study explored the development of 6-to 10-year-old children's moral emotion judgment and attribution to the victimizer and bystander in the victimizing context, the results revealed (1) 6-year-old children could understand that victimizing behavior was wrong, while children could not understand that bystander behavior was wrong until 8 years old. (2)With the age increasing, happiness degree children judged to the victimizer displayed a declining tendency, and their moral emotion attribution changed from outcome-oriented to morality-oriented. By contrast, although the happiness degree children judged to the bystander displayed an decreasing tendency, their moral emotion attribution changed from invalidity-oriented to morality-oriented. (3)Children's moral emotion judgments to different actors were affected by the interaction of age and gender. Among the children aged 6, happiness degree which judged by boys towards the victimizer was higher than girls, while the happiness degree which judged by boys towards the bystander was lower than girls. But these effects were not found among the children aged 8 and 10.

Key words: victimizing context, bystander, moral emotion judgment, moral emotion attribution, developmental stage

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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