ISSN : 1229-0718
This study investigated the children's affective reaction on the socialmoral transgression events. Eighty kindergartners and second graders assessed the probable affective reactions of 3 types of socialmoral transgression events(moral rule system, social-conventional rule system, personal rule system) on several characters roles(victimizer, victim, observer) on the 3 types of socialmoral transgression events. The Results indicated that children's affective reactions were differentiated in the both types of socialmoral events and the role of participants in these events. That is, 1) children's had highly differentiated conceptions of the affettive consequences of social moral events. 2) Children's affective conceptions also differed for each character and for particular rule system and character role combinations