title: The interactive roles of parenting, emotion regulation and executive functioning in moral reasoning during middle childhood.
abstract: We examined mother-child co-operative behaviour, children's emotion regulation and executive function, as well as combinations of these factors, as predictors of moral reasoning in 89 10-year-old children. Dyadic co-operation was coded from videotaped observations of laboratory puzzle and speech tasks. Emotion regulation was derived from maternal report, and executive functioning was assessed with the Tower of London task. Moral reasoning was coded during mother-child conversations about morally ambiguous, peer-conflict situations. Two significant interactions indicated that children from more co-operative dyads who also had higher executive function skills had higher moral reasoning scores than other children, and children lower in both emotion regulation and executive function had lower moral reasoning scores than other children. The results contribute to the literature on the multiple and interactive levels of influence on moral reasoning in childhood.
authors: a Department of Psychology , The Catholic University of America , Washington , DC , USA.
authors: J Benjamin
authors: JB
authors: Hinnant
authors: Jackie A
authors: JA
authors: Nelson
authors: Marion
authors: M
authors: O'Brien
authors: Susan P
authors: SP
authors: Keane
authors: Susan D
authors: SD
authors: Calkins
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004644:Emotions; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*
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