Middlebury College.
Child Dev. 2018 Sep;89(5):1657-1673. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12811. Epub 2017 Apr 17.
This study examined moral reasoning in parent-child conversations within a U.S. evangelical Christian community. The goal was to identify social-communicative processes that may promote the development of Divinity in children's moral reasoning. Sixteen parent-child dyads (6-9 years old) discussed hypothetical moral vignettes about failures to help peers in need. Analyses revealed that Divinity typically co-occurred with Autonomy in these conversations and that such co-occurrences typically happened through three distinct social-communicative processes, labeled "align," "scaffold," and "counter." Findings are used to explain the shifting priority of Autonomy and Divinity over the life course among members of evangelical Christian faiths that previous research has documented. More broadly, findings highlight socialization processes through which children can rationalize their developing moral outlooks in culturally distinct ways.
本研究考察了美国福音派基督教社区中亲子对话中的道德推理。目的是确定可能促进儿童道德推理中神性发展的社会交际过程。16 对亲子（6-9 岁）讨论了关于未能帮助有需要的同伴的假设道德情景。分析表明，在这些对话中，神性通常与自主性同时出现，并且这种同时出现通常通过三种不同的社会交际过程发生，分别标记为“对齐”、“支架”和“对抗”。研究结果用于解释先前研究记录的福音派基督教信仰成员在整个生命过程中自主性和神性的优先级变化。更广泛地说，这些发现强调了通过这些过程，儿童可以以文化上独特的方式合理化他们不断发展的道德观念。
