Moral pride, more intense in girls than in boys?

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    • Subject Terms:
      MORAL education; GENDER differences (Psychology); SELF-consciousness (Awareness); EMOTIONS; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENCE
    • Abstract:
      Moral pride has been found to be a positive component of moral life. Nevertheless, this emotion has been the object of little attention and hardly any studies focus on gender differences in this regard. Is this emotion more intense in girls than in boys? Five studies on authentic moral pride, with sample groups in different age ranges (two with children and the other three with adolescents) and using different measures (moral pride scales and vignettes), were carried out to answer this question. When significant (Study 5, with adolescents) or marginally significant (Study 2, with children, and Study 3, with adolescents) differences were observed, they were always in favor of girls, but were fairly small. In the discussion, these results are interpreted in light of the feeling rules about pride in general and a series of guidelines are suggested for children's education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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