What Do Children Feel Guilty About?
Christopher Williams and Jane Bybee of Northeastern University were
interested in discovering the frequency of guilt provoking events in
adolescents. They wanted to establish proof for the hypothesis that
age-related changes in children were attributed to developmental changes in
cognitive reasoning. Past research has indicted that children with high
levels of guilt are less delinquent, more compassionate, and more academic
excitable children expressing less guilt in similar situations. It has been
sited that at its best guilt can bring about the aforementioned but is can
also be attributed to depression and obsessive compulsive disorders.
In this study, there were 240 participants (123 male and 117 female).
they were grouped according to grade. There were 85 fifth graders (40 male
and 45 female), 90 eighth graders (44 male and 46 female), and 65 eleventh
graders (39 male and 26 female). The subjects......
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