References to social norms by preschool childrenand their linguistic expression

摘要

businessThe study is based on the domain approach to the social norms and it children treat social norms of different domains differently: the use of moral rulesinvestigated whether preschool children's references to social norms are related totheir language expression. Children aged 3;8-7;5 years (N= 73; 35 boys and 38 girls) participated and were video-recorded playing in triads for 20 minutes. Thenorms mentioned were coded as moral or conventional rules according toPiotrowski's (1997) coding system. Older children and more talkative childrenmention more conventional rules (p < .05 and p < .001, respectively); boys tend influenced by age or talkativeness of the child. This supports the idea thatdoes not seem to be influenced by the characteristics of the child, while the Correspondence should be addressed to Pirko Mugu, Institute of Psychology, University ofThe study was possible due to the grant no 6511 of the Estonian Science Foundation and theto refer to moral rules more often than girls, yet the use of moral rules was not references to conventional rules depend on the age and talkativeness of the child.