Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children

Social outcomes, such as empathy, conscience, and behavioral self-regulation, might require a baseline of psychological wellbeing. According to Triune Ethics Metatheory (TEM), early experience influences the neuropsychology underlying a child's orientation toward the social and moral world. The...

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Autores principales:	Darcia Narvaez, Tracy Gleason, Mary Tarsha, Ryan Woodbury, Ying Cheng, Lijuan Wang
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	sociomoral wellbeing temperament self-regulation social behavior child development Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3f2f93a7a102409b816af98cdb1084dd2021-11-08T04:58:07ZSociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.742199https://doaj.org/article/3f2f93a7a102409b816af98cdb1084dd2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742199/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Social outcomes, such as empathy, conscience, and behavioral self-regulation, might require a baseline of psychological wellbeing. According to Triune Ethics Metatheory (TEM), early experience influences the neuropsychology underlying a child's orientation toward the social and moral world. Theoretically, a child's wellbeing, fostered through early caregiving, promotes sociomoral temperaments that correspond to the child's experience, such as social approach or withdrawal in face-to-face situations. These temperaments may represent an individual's default sociomoral perspective on the world. We hypothesized that sociomoral temperament emerges as a function of wellbeing and would be related to social outcomes measured by moral socialization and self-regulation. Further, we hypothesized that sociomoral temperament would mediate the relationship between wellbeing and social outcomes. To investigate, we collected items reflective of sociomoral temperament, asking mothers from two countries (USA: n = 525; China: n = 379) to report on their 3- to 5-year-old children. They also reported on their child's wellbeing (anxiety, depression, happiness) and social outcomes, including moral socialization (concern after wrong doing, internalized conduct and empathy) and behavioral self-regulation (inhibitory control and misbehavior). As expected, correlations identified connections between wellbeing, sociomoral temperament, and social outcomes. Mediation analyses demonstrated that sociomoral temperament mediated relations between wellbeing and social outcomes in both samples, though in slightly different patterns. Fostering early wellbeing may influence social outcomes through a child's developing sociomoral temperament.Darcia NarvaezTracy GleasonMary TarshaRyan WoodburyYing ChengLijuan WangFrontiers Media S.A.articlesociomoralwellbeingtemperamentself-regulationsocial behaviorchild developmentPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic	sociomoral wellbeing temperament self-regulation social behavior child development Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	sociomoral wellbeing temperament self-regulation social behavior child development Psychology BF1-990 Darcia Narvaez Tracy Gleason Mary Tarsha Ryan Woodbury Ying Cheng Lijuan Wang Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children
description	Social outcomes, such as empathy, conscience, and behavioral self-regulation, might require a baseline of psychological wellbeing. According to Triune Ethics Metatheory (TEM), early experience influences the neuropsychology underlying a child's orientation toward the social and moral world. Theoretically, a child's wellbeing, fostered through early caregiving, promotes sociomoral temperaments that correspond to the child's experience, such as social approach or withdrawal in face-to-face situations. These temperaments may represent an individual's default sociomoral perspective on the world. We hypothesized that sociomoral temperament emerges as a function of wellbeing and would be related to social outcomes measured by moral socialization and self-regulation. Further, we hypothesized that sociomoral temperament would mediate the relationship between wellbeing and social outcomes. To investigate, we collected items reflective of sociomoral temperament, asking mothers from two countries (USA: n = 525; China: n = 379) to report on their 3- to 5-year-old children. They also reported on their child's wellbeing (anxiety, depression, happiness) and social outcomes, including moral socialization (concern after wrong doing, internalized conduct and empathy) and behavioral self-regulation (inhibitory control and misbehavior). As expected, correlations identified connections between wellbeing, sociomoral temperament, and social outcomes. Mediation analyses demonstrated that sociomoral temperament mediated relations between wellbeing and social outcomes in both samples, though in slightly different patterns. Fostering early wellbeing may influence social outcomes through a child's developing sociomoral temperament.
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author	Darcia Narvaez Tracy Gleason Mary Tarsha Ryan Woodbury Ying Cheng Lijuan Wang
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title	Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children
title_short	Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children
title_full	Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children
title_fullStr	Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children
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title_sort	sociomoral temperament: a mediator between wellbeing and social outcomes in young children
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
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Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children

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