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ERIC Number: EJ564406
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Children's and Adolescents' Understanding of Rights: Balancing Nurturance and Self-Determination.
Ruck, Martin D.; Abramovitch, Rona; Keating, Daniel P.
Child Development, v69 n2 p404-17 Apr 1998
Used hypothetical vignettes to examine the development of children's and adolescents' understanding of nurturance and self-determination rights. Found that 8- to 12-year-olds were significantly less likely than 14- to 16-year-olds to identify nurturance and self-determination rights as salient. Reasoning about self-determination rights, but not nurturance rights, showed an age-related progression from concrete to abstract. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Individual Power, Personal Autonomy, Self Control, Self Determination
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Justification (Psychology); Nurturance; Vignettes