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Urban and Rural Chinese Adolescents’ Judgments and Reasoning About Personal and Group Jurisdiction
Author(s) -
Helwig Charles C.,
Yang Shaogang,
Tan Dingliang,
Liu Chunqiong,
Shao Tiffany
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01531.x
Subject(s) - psychology , legitimacy , jurisdiction , social psychology , personal jurisdiction , coercion (linguistics) , china , politics , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy
This research applied social domain theory to illuminate reasoning about the perceived legitimacy and limits of group decision making (majority rule) among adolescents from urban and rural China ( N = 160). Study 1 revealed that adolescents from both urban and rural China judged group decision making as acceptable for both social conventional and prudential issues, but not for personal issues or those that entailed possible harmful coercion of others. Study 2 revealed that personal jurisdiction develops later for rural than urban adolescents for certain issues (democratic rights to political participation and choice of friends). Results indicate that reasoning about group and personal jurisdiction in a non‐Western society (China) is influenced by social domain, age, and environmental setting (modern vs. traditional).