When not helping is nice: Children's changing evaluations of helping during COVID-19.
Dev Psychol
; 59(5): 953-962, 2023 May.
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en Inglés
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2185572
ABSTRACT
A key aspect of children's moral and social understanding involves recognizing the value of helpful behaviors. COVID-19 has complicated this process; behaviors generally considered praiseworthy were considered problematic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study examined whether 6- to 12-year-olds (N = 228; residing in the United States) adapt their evaluations of helpful behavior in response to shifting norms. Specifically, we presented children with scenarios featuring helpful and unhelpful actions that involved physical interaction (e.g., hugging) or nonphysical interaction (e.g., recruiting a teacher); although all children were tested during the COVID-19 pandemic, stories portrayed individuals either before or during COVID-19. While children generally judged helpfulness positively and unhelpfulness negatively, children exhibited a selective shift in their judgments for COVID-19 scenarios children considered helpfulness negatively and unhelpfulness positively if helping required physical interaction. These findings demonstrate that children flexibly tune their social evaluations of helping to align with evolving norms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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Asunto principal:
Desarrollo Infantil
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio experimental
Límite:
Niño
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Dev Psychol
Año:
2023
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