Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON L5L1C6, Canada.
Child Dev. 2013 Mar-Apr;84(2):397-412. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01851.x. Epub 2012 Sep 24.
This meta-analytic review of 42 studies covering 8,009 participants (ages 4-20) examines the relation of moral emotion attributions to prosocial and antisocial behavior. A significant association is found between moral emotion attributions and prosocial and antisocial behaviors (d = .26, 95% CI [.15, .38]; d = .39, 95% CI [.29, .49]). Effect sizes differ considerably across studies and this heterogeneity is attributed to moderator variables. Specifically, effect sizes for predicted antisocial behavior are larger for self-attributed moral emotions than for emotions attributed to hypothetical story characters. Effect sizes for prosocial and antisocial behaviors are associated with several other study characteristics. Results are discussed with respect to the potential significance of moral emotion attributions for the social behavior of children and adolescents.
本元分析综述了 42 项研究，涵盖了 8009 名参与者（年龄 4-20 岁），考察了道德情感归因与亲社会和反社会行为之间的关系。研究发现，道德情感归因与亲社会和反社会行为之间存在显著关联（d=0.26，95%置信区间 [0.15, 0.38]；d=0.39，95%置信区间 [0.29, 0.49]）。研究之间的效应大小差异很大，这种异质性归因于调节变量。具体而言，对于自我归因的道德情感，其预测反社会行为的效应大小大于对假设故事角色的情感归因。亲社会和反社会行为的效应大小与其他几个研究特征有关。研究结果讨论了道德情感归因对儿童和青少年社会行为的潜在意义。
