eprintid: 10161498 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/14/98 datestamp: 2022-12-08 12:13:27 lastmod: 2022-12-08 12:13:27 status_changed: 2022-12-08 12:13:27 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Li, Zijian creators_name: Li, Boya creators_name: Tsou, Yung-Ting creators_name: Oosterveld, Paul creators_name: Rieffe, Carolien title: Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: 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 note: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2022 The Authors. Social Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. abstract: 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. date: 2022-10-20 date_type: published publisher: WILEY official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12645 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1986156 doi: 10.1111/sode.12645 lyricists_name: Rieffe, Catharina lyricists_id: CRIEF26 actors_name: Rieffe, Catharina actors_id: CRIEF26 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: 530-5CDP17 [Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)]; 201907720030 [China Scholarship Council (CSC) - Leiden Joint Scholarship] full_text_status: public publication: Social Development pages: 19 citation: Li, Zijian; Li, Boya; Tsou, Yung-Ting; Oosterveld, Paul; Rieffe, Carolien; (2022) Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire. Social Development 10.1111/sode.12645 <https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12645>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161498/1/Li_etal_2022_SocDev_ChineseMEQ.pdf