da Silva, Brenda MS;
Ketelaar, Lizet;
Veiga, Guida;
Tsou, Yung-Ting;
Rieffe, Carolien;
(2022)
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ).
International Journal of Behavioral Development
, 46
(2)
pp. 157-168.
10.1177/01650254221075031.
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Abstract
Moral emotions are experienced in daily life and are crucial for mediating appropriate social behaviors, as they prevent individuals from committing transgressions. In this study, caregivers of 377 children aged between 2.5 and 6.5 years old completed the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ), a parent report aimed to separately identify the presence of shame, guilt, and pride behaviors in early childhood. To validate this newly developed questionnaire, a confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance were conducted, and internal consistency, and concurrent validity were tested. Outcomes confirmed that the three moral emotions can be individually identified through the MEQ, even at such an early age. The MEQ scales showed acceptable internal consistencies and the associations between the three moral emotions and externalizing behaviors, internalizing behaviors, and social competence were in accordance with previous research, therefore confirming concurrent validity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01650254221075031 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221075031 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Childhood development, emotion, psychosocial development, confirmatory factor analysis, validation, self-conscious emotions, moral emotions, SELF-CONSCIOUS EMOTIONS, OF-FIT INDEXES, MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE, GENDER-DIFFERENCES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, YOUNG-CHILDREN, SHAME, GUILT, PRIDE |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154744 |
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