%L discovery10161498
%I WILEY
%D 2022
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%T Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire
%K Social Sciences, Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Chinese culture, moral emotions, preschool age, validation, WEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARES, MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, YOUNG-CHILDREN, SITUATIONAL ANTECEDENTS, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, SELF-REGULATION, FIT INDEXES, SHAME, GUILT, PRIDE
%A Zijian Li
%A Boya Li
%A Yung-Ting Tsou
%A Paul Oosterveld
%A Carolien Rieffe
%X Moral emotions such as pride, guilt and shame play an important role in the social-emotional development of preschool children. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring moral emotions in the preschool age. Moreover, relatively few research had examined cross-cultural validity of measures for moral emotions. The present study tested the Chinese version of the Moral emotion questionnaire (MEQ) upon a group of (N = 182) Chinese preschool children aged from 2 to 6 years. The Chinese MEQ is a parent-report translated from Dutch, assessing behavioural responses of pride, guilt and shame in preschool children. Confirmatory factor analysis showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes for a three-factor structure (Pride, Guilt, Shame) with 15 loading items. For concurrent relations, the results suggested an adaptive role of pride and guilt and a maladaptive role of shame in the social-emotional development of preschool children. We could conclude that the 15-item Chinese MEQ is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring pride, guilt, and shame in 2–6-year-old children in the Chinese context.
%J Social Development