Sociomoral Temperament: A Mediator Between Wellbeing and Social Outcomes in Young Children.

ABSTRACT: Social outcomes, such as empathy, conscience, and behavioral self-regulation, might require a baseline of psychological wellbeing. According to Triune Ethics Metatheory (TEM), early experience influences the neuropsychology underlying a child's orientation toward the social and moral world. Theoretically, a child's wellbeing, fostered through early caregiving, promotes sociomoral temperaments that correspond to the child's experience, such as social approach or withdrawal in face-to-face situations. These temperaments may represent an individual's default sociomoral perspective on the world. We hypothesized that sociomoral temperament emerges as a function of wellbeing and would be related to social outcomes measured by moral socialization and self-regulation. Further, we hypothesized that

SUBMITTER: Narvaez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606405 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature