Attribution of responsibility to the self and other in children and adults.
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 37 (9) , 1589-1602
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.37.9.1589
Abstract
240 Ss from 5 age groups (6–7.5, 8–9.5, 10–11.5, 12–13.5 yrs and adult graduate and undergraduate students) were administered stories representing F. Heider"s (1958) criteria for responsibility attribution under 1 of 2 conditions—the actor was either a hypothetical other or the self. As predicted, an Age × Stimulus Level interaction was found, although its nature differed for attribution of blame and causality. In relation to the moral judgment measure, a further interaction of Story Character × Age was found, and response patterns formed a Guttman scalogram. However, scale types were not clearly age linked. Although these data confirm the utility of Heider"s responsibility-attribution criteria, no strong evidence was obtained to support a developmental interpretation of his theory. Results are also discussed in terms of Piagetian research and an extension of Heider"s schema. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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