Morality and Personality of Children in Single and Non-single Child Family
- VernacularTitle:2708名4-14岁儿童的品德、个性和气质评估
- Author:
De WU
;
Jiulai TANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
children in single child family morality introversive-extroversive temperament mood
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2002;0(07):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: To study morality and personality of children in single and non-single child family Method:204 children aged 4-14 in single child families were collected 204 children with siblings were sampled matched by age, sex, and education levels of parents and caregivers They composed the matched sample Other 2300 children were also collected in this study including 1626 in single child family and 674 with siblings (random sample) The research instruments included Inventory on Children's Morality, EPQ for children, and Scale of Children's Temperament Parents of children completed these inventory and scales; teachers of children completed the Inventory on Children's Morality Results:In the above two samples, in assessment of morality, parents of single child in family gave lower scores on their children's virtue than parents of multiple children gave on their children But no morality difference was found between single and non-single children when assessed by their teachers In the random sample, more school aged children in single child family had extroversive personality than their counterparts in multiple children family In the matched sample, no difference on introversive-extroversive between single and non-single children was found In both samples, there were more mood-stable and less unstable children in the group of children with siblings; types of Bile-plethora and Bile-melancholic were more frequent in children of single child family Conclusion:Children of single child family are unstable in mood, their morality problems are more obvious in family than in school
