Journal article
Mother - Child Mutually Responsive Orientation and Conscience Development: From Toddler to Early School Age
Child development, Vol.71(2), pp.417-431
03/2000
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00154
PMID: 10834474
Abstract
We examined whether positive implications of mother-child mutually responsive orientation, demonstrated earlier at toddler and preschool age, extend longitudinally into early school age. The focus of the present study was on the long-term consequences of mutually responsive orientation for the development of conscience. Mutually responsive orientation encompassed shared cooperation and shared positive affect between mother and child. It was measured as a composite of those qualities observed in dyadic naturalistic interactions and reported by mothers, at toddler and preschool age. Children's conscience was assessed at early school age (N = 83) using multiple measures, including observations of moral behavior, alone and in the peer context, and moral cognition. Mother-child mutually responsive orientation at toddler and preschool ages predicted children's future conscience, even after controlling for the developmental continuity of conscience. Model-fitting analyses revealed that mutually responsive orientation at toddler age had a direct effect on future conscience, not mediated by such orientation at preschool age. The findings extend those of earlier work that revealed the importance of mother-child mutually responsive orientation for socialization, and they confirm the value of the relationship approach to social development, including long-term outcomes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mother - Child Mutually Responsive Orientation and Conscience Development: From Toddler to Early School Age
- Creators
- Grazyna Kochanska - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IAKathleen T Murray - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.71(2), pp.417-431
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishers Inc
- DOI
- 10.1111/1467-8624.00154
- PMID
- 10834474
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2000
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213267702771
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