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ERIC Number: EJ676617
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Conceptions of Moral, Social-Conventional, and Personal Events among Chinese Preschoolers in Hong Kong.
Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G.
Child Development, v74 n3 p647-58 May-Jun 2003
Interviewed 4- and 6-year-old Hong Kong preschoolers about familiar moral, social-conventional, and personal events. Found that children judged children as deciding personal issues, based on personal choice justifications, and judged parents as deciding moral and conventional issues. With age, children granted increased decisionmaking power to the child. More so than other events, children viewed moral transgressions as more serious and wrong independent of authority, based on welfare and fairness. (Author/KB)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Authority; Fairness; Hong Kong; Justification (Psychology); Personal Experiences; Social Conventions; Transgression Behavior