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Maternal Reports of Conscience Development and Temperament in Young Children
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Multiple manifestations of emerging conscience, their development, organization, and links with temperament were studied in 171 21-70-month-old children. A new parental report instrument was designed to measure conscience, with good psychometric qualities and predictive of children's behaviors in a laboratory. For most aspects of conscience, the major developmental shifts occurred around age 3.2 components of early conscience emerged in factor analyses: Affective Discomfort, significantly higher for girls, that encompassed guilt, apology, concern about good feelings with the parent following wrongdoing, and empathy with others, and Active Moral Regulation/Vigilance, which included confession and reparation following wrongdoing, internalization of rules of conduct (self-regulation), and concern about others' wrongdoing. Children's temperament, assessed by maternal reports, was associated with conscience. Low impulsivity and high inhibitory control were associated with Active Moral Regulation/Vigilance for both sexes and, for girls only, also with Affective Discomfort. For girls, temperamental reactivity related positively to Affective Discomfort and negatively to Active Moral Regulation/Vigilance.
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- Kochanska, G., DeVet, K. A., Goldman, M., Murray, K. T., & Putnam, S. P.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1994-06-01
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 852-852
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
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- W2069009449
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- 332
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 12.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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