A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON MORAL JUDGMENT OF VICTIMIZING BEHAVIOR AND RELEVANT EMOTIONAL ATTRIBUTION IN YOUNG CHILDREN
关于幼儿对损人行为的道德判断及有关情绪预期的初步研究

The present study interviewed young children aged 4,5,6 with understandable daily life stories and investigated the characteristics of their social moral knowledge,moral judgment and relevant emotional prediction,so as to study the development of young children's moral cognition and moral emotion,and whether they were connected to each other.The results showed: young children did acquire basic knowledge of moral rules in daily life,and judged the moral rights of behavior in terms of these pre-conceptual knowledge;careness for others emerged and obscured the ego-centrism in their moral cognition;it seemed that the young children's moral emotion were apart from their moral cognition in the emotional prediction of story victimizer but not in that of oneself supposed as the victimizer,showing a split between them. The above results indicated that young children's moral cognitive development was influenced by Chinese traditional culture which emphasized moral education and careness to others, as the result their moral emotion emerged earlier; that influenced by the poor perspective-taking abilities,young children's moral emotion was still apart from their moral cognition in the emotional attribution of the story victimizer.