Journal article
Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Guilt and Conscience
Child development, Vol.62(6), pp.1379-1392
12/1991
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01612.x
PMID: 1786722
Abstract
Toddlerhood antecedents of conscience were examined in 58 8–10‐year‐old children. The measures of conscience, such as general affective/moral orientation, the extent of reparation, and the intensity of guilt feelings, were assessed from children's narratives produced in response to semiprojective stories involving transgressions, distress, and conflict. Maternal endorsed socialization orientations and observed rearing behaviors that deemphasized the use of power were associated with the children's internalized conscience 6 years later. However, these findings were significant only for children who were relatively prone to fearful arousal. The capacity for self‐regulation, indexed by early compliance and noncompliance to maternal socialization, predicted children's internalized conscience 6 years later. There was preliminary evidence that compliance obtained in a rearing context that deemphasized power assertion was most conducive to the development of conscience. The findings are discussed in view of the interplay of socialization and temperament in moral development. Copyright © 1991, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Guilt and Conscience
- Creators
- Grazyna Kochanska - National Institute of Mental Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.62(6), pp.1379-1392
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01612.x
- PMID
- 1786722
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Number of pages
- 14
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1991
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213404602771
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