We focus on children's conscience, an inner guiding system responsible for the gradual emergence and maintenance of self-regulation. Drawing from our research program that has encompassed three large longitudinal studies cumulatively covering the first 6 years of life, we discuss two major components of conscience: moral emotions (guilt, discomfort following transgressions) and moral conduct co...

This article develops and tests a new theoretical framework, gendered political socialization , which offers important insights into how children perceive gender in politics the consequences of these perceptions on sex differences interest ambition. Based data from 1,604 who live four different regions across United States, we find that not only to be male-dominated space, but with age, girls i...

The way we are, behave and think is the final product of socialization. Since the moment we are born, we are being moulded into the being society wants us to be. Through socialization we also learn what is appropriate and improper for both genders. The vast literature on this topic has pointed out a consolidation of the debate. It allows us to identify important problematic bonds relative to th...

social participation has a critical effect on quality of life in any society. in this paper, we try to evaluate eventual relationships between the structure of power in family and quality and quantity of social participation. the main objective is to measure the correlation between the type of socialization in the family of orientation (origin), and the type of social participation and its scop...

The United States and China are two societies with distinctive cultures. Common to many of the discussions of American culture is the perception that Americans value individual independence. Chinese culture, on the other hand, is said to emphasize conformity. Using data from the World Values Survey 1990-2007, this paper examines patterns of child socialization values in the United States and Ch...