Inter-individual stabilization of justice sensitivity in childhood and adolescence

• Autores: Rebecca Bondü, Marianne Hannuschke, Birgit Elsner, Mario Gollwitzer
• Localización: Journal of Research in Personality, ISSN-e 1095-7251, Vol. 64, Nº. 0, 2016, págs. 11-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Abstract Individuals systematically differ in their justice sensitivity, but so far little is known about the trait’s development. The present study investigated the inter-individual stabilization of victim, observer, and perpetrator justice sensitivity in 1,122 German children and adolescents between 9 and 18 years of age over the course of 1–2 years. Latent-state-trait analyses with two occasions of measurement showed increasing stability rates of all justice-sensitivity perspectives between childhood and early adolescence and decreasing stabilities of observer and perpetrator sensitivity between younger and older adolescents. Correlations between justice-sensitivity perspectives tended to decrease with age. Thus, presumably due to increases in social-emotional and social-cognitive abilities, childhood and adolescence seem important periods for the stabilization and differentiation of the justice-sensitivity perspectives.