Moral emotion attributions and justifications in social exclusion situations among adolescents

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Moral emotion attributions and justifications in social exclusion situations among adolescents

Original language description

Social exclusion against peers is widespread and a cause of concern all over the world (Killen & Rutland, 2011). Findings suggest that adolescents consider multiple variables when reasoning about exclusion (Tenenbaum, Leman, Aznar, Duthie & Killen, 2018). According to the Affect-Cognition Model (Malti & Keller, 2010), cognitive and emotional skills are progressively integrated throughout development. Moral emotions involve a great degree of cognitive processing, as they require both an understanding of why it is wrong to break a moral rule, and how the rule-breaking negatively affects the well-being of others (Malti, 2016). However, it is still not fully understood how moral emotions and cognitions become integrated. Therefore, the present study compares moral emotion attributions and justifications in prosocial omission versus intentional social exclusion situations. Adolescents (N = 530, 50.4% girls) aged 13.44 years (SD = 0.41) responded to hypothetical vignettes depicting an intentional social exclusion and a prosocial omission situation. Participants were asked to attribute emotions to the perpetrator, to justify the perpetrator’s emotion, to morally judge this emotion and to justify their moral judgement of the perpetrator’s emotion. Attributed emotions to perpetrators differed between the two situations. While the majority of the adolescents thought that the perpetrator in the prosocial omission situation did not care, the majority of adolescents thought that the perpetrator in the social exclusion situation was proud or happy. While emotions in prosocial omission situations were mostly justified with reasons of personal choice, emotions in social exclusion situations were justified with reasons of moral fairness and moral empathy. The moral evaluation of the perpetrator’s emotion and its justification differed depending on the kind of moral emotion attributed to the perpetrator, however, the pattern was much clearer in the intentional social exclusion situation. The results are discussed regarding their theoretical and practical importance.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-09443S" target="_blank" >GA18-09443S: Teachers' perspectives on peer exclusion among adolescents</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů