The Relation of Moral Emotion Attributions to Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

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...

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Published in:Child development Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 397 - 412
Main Authors: Malti, Tina, Krettenauer, Tobias
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2013
Wiley Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Anti-social behaviour
Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial behaviour
Antisocial personality disorder
Associations
Attribution
Attribution Theory
Attributions
Behavior
Behavior (psychology)
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Child Behavior Checklist
Child development
Child psychology
Child, Preschool
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Coding
Correlation
Developmental psychology
Effect Size
Emotion
Emotional Development
Emotions
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human aggression
Humans
Hypothesis
Literature Reviews
Male
Meta Analysis
Moderator variables
Moral aspects
Moral Development
Moral Values
Morality
Morals
Prediction
Prosocial Behavior
Prosocial behaviour
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Regression (Statistics)
REVIEW
Social attribution, perception and cognition
Social Behavior
Social behaviour
Social factors
Social influence
Social life and customs
Social psychology
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Systematic review
Young Adult
Human
Affect affectivity
Antisocial behavior
Prosocial behavior
Moral attitude
Emotion emotionality
Review
Attribution
Social cognition
Metaanalysis
Adolescent
Social behavior disorder
Child
ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624, 1467-8624
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Summary: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.
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The authors are grateful to Isabella Schwyzer for her help in data coding. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01851.x