The construction of moral agency in mother-child conversations about helping and hurting across childhood and adolescence

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-44

  Recchia, Holly E ^a   Wainryb, Cecilia ^b   Bourne, Stacia ^b   Pasupathi, Monisha ^b  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral development; Mother child conversation; Prosociality; Socialization; Transgression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MORALITY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84891805017     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033492     Document Type: Article

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