title: Urban and rural Chinese adolescents' judgments and reasoning about personal and group jurisdiction.
abstract: This research applied social domain theory to illuminate reasoning about the perceived legitimacy and limits of group decision making (majority rule) among adolescents from urban and rural China (N = 160). Study 1 revealed that adolescents from both urban and rural China judged group decision making as acceptable for both social conventional and prudential issues, but not for personal issues or those that entailed possible harmful coercion of others. Study 2 revealed that personal jurisdiction develops later for rural than urban adolescents for certain issues (democratic rights to political participation and choice of friends). Results indicate that reasoning about group and personal jurisdiction in a non-Western society (China) is influenced by social domain, age, and environmental setting (modern vs. traditional).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. helwig@psych.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Charles C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Helwig
authors.forename: Shaogang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Dingliang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Chunqiong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tiffany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011340:Problem Solving; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012424:Rural Population; D012931:Social Environment; D012945:Social Values; D014505:Urban Population