ERIC Number: EJ740649
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 13
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 41
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
When Victims Don't Cry: Children's Understandings of Victimization, Compliance, and Subversion
Shaw, Leigh A.; Wainryb, Cecilia
Child Development, v77 n4 p1050-1062 Jul-Aug 2006
How do children understand situations in which the targets of moral transgressions do not complain about the way they are treated? One-hundred and twenty participants aged 5, 7, 10, 13, and 16 years were interviewed about hypothetical situations in which one child ("transgressor") made an apparently unfair demand of another child ("victim"), who then responded by either resisting, complying, or subverting. In general, 5-year-olds judged compliance positively and resistance negatively and 7- to 16-year-olds judged resistance positively and compliance negatively; all but 16-year-olds judged subversion negatively. Most participants judged the transgressor's actions negatively, regardless of how the victim had responded. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for children's developing understandings of victimization.
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Child Development, Interviews, Compliance (Psychology), Resistance (Psychology), Child Behavior, Moral Values, Emotional Response, Age Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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