Journal article
Committed compliance, moral self, and internalization: a mediational model
Developmental psychology, Vol.38(3), pp.339-351
05/2002
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.38.3.339
PMID: 12005378
Abstract
Previous research has established that children's committed, eager, willing compliance with maternal control promotes moral internalization, whereas their opposition interferes with internalization; but the causal mechanism responsible for those links is unknown. A mediational model is tested in which committed compliance and opposition are seen as influencing the child's emerging view of self on moral dimensions, and this "moral self," in turn, regulates moral conduct. Committed compliance and opposition were observed in naturalistic mother-child discipline contexts involving "do" and "don't" demands at 14, 22, 33, and 45 months. An interactive interview and observations were used to measure the moral self and internalization at 56 months (N = 74). The mediational model, involving committed compliance and opposition in the "don't" demand context, was supported, but only for boys.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Committed compliance, moral self, and internalization: a mediational model
- Creators
- Grazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1407, USA. grazyna-kochanska@uiowa.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.38(3), pp.339-351
- DOI
- 10.1037/0012-1649.38.3.339
- PMID
- 12005378
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Grant note
- R01 HD069171 / NICHD NIH HHS K02 MH01446 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213263802771
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