TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - "That really hurt, Charlie!" investigating the role of sympathy and moral respect in children's aggressive behavior
JO  - Journal of genetic psychology
A1  - Peplak, Joanna
A1  - Malti, Tina
SP  - 89
EP  - 101
VL  - 178
IS  - 2
N2  - The authors examined the role of sympathy and moral respect in children's overt aggression, and the subtypes of proactive and reactive aggression, in an ethnically diverse sample of 5-, 7-, and 10-year-olds (N = 110). Aggressive behaviors were measured through teacher reports and peer nominations. Sympathy was assessed through teacher reports. Children reported on their moral respect within an interview procedure where they were asked for their feelings of respect toward hypothetical peers who displayed morally relevant behaviors. <br><br>RESULTS revealed that sympathy and moral respect were both negatively related to overt aggression and to the proactive aggression subtype, but unrelated to the reactive aggression subtype. The authors discuss the implications of the findings in relation to developmental research on the affective antecedents of children's aggressive behavior.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1325
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2016.1245178
ID  - ref1
ER  -