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Mediational Pathways to Moral Reasoning: Quality of the Mother-Child Relationship, Cognitive Support, and Children's Emotion Regulation and Executive Functioning

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: The relations among children's moral reasoning, emotion regulation, executive planning abilities, quality of the mother-child relationship, and cognitive support and stimulation provided by parents, were examined in 87 10-year-old children. Theoretically driven hypotheses regarding the mediational pathways among these variables were tested in several comparative path analytic models. A mediational model wherein parental characteristics were indirectly related to moral reasoning via child characteristics was found to fit the data best. Specifically, children's executive functioning was directly and positively related to moral reasoning. The quality of the mother-child relationship was positively related to children's emotion regulation and marginally, positively related to moral reasoning via children's emotion regulation. Findings from these mediational analyses and their implications are discussed in detail.

Source: NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

Author: J. Benjamin Hinnant

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: G6784495858, Human Development: Interdisciplinary Research Training

OpenAlex ID: W2127329658

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Cites: 81

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