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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sode.12645 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12645 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. |
| 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 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education 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 |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161498 |
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