Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2013 Oct;44(5):633-45. doi: 10.1007/s10578-013-0357-y.
This study examined the relations between interpretive understanding, sympathy, and moral emotion attribution (MEA) in the prediction of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptomatology in an ethnically diverse sample of 128 4- and 8-year-old children (49 % girls). Caregivers rated the children's ODD symptoms. Interpretive understanding was assessed using an advanced theory-of-mind task. Sympathy was measured via caregiver- and child-report. Strength of MEA was assessed utilizing the children's responses to six hypothetical moral transgressions. Results revealed that interpretive understanding, sympathy, and strength of MEA in the exclusion domain predicted ODD symptoms negatively. Caregiver-reported sympathy partially mediated and moderated the relation between interpretive understanding and ODD symptoms. Strength of MEA in the rule violation domain moderated the relation between interpretive understanding and ODD symptoms. The findings shed light on the importance of social-cognitive and affective-moral antecedents of ODD symptoms.
本研究考察了在一个种族多样化的 128 名 4 岁和 8 岁儿童（49%为女孩）样本中，解释性理解、同情心与道德情感归因（MEA）在对立违抗性障碍（ODD）症状预测中的关系。照顾者对儿童的 ODD 症状进行了评估。解释性理解采用先进的心理理论任务进行评估。同情心通过照顾者和儿童报告进行测量。MEA 的强度利用儿童对六个假设的道德违规的反应来评估。结果表明，解释性理解、同情心和排除领域的 MEA 强度与 ODD 症状呈负相关。照顾者报告的同情心部分中介和调节了解释性理解与 ODD 症状之间的关系。MEA 在规则违反领域的强度调节了解释性理解与 ODD 症状之间的关系。这些发现揭示了 ODD 症状的社会认知和情感道德前因的重要性。
