تطور الانفعال الأخلاقي (الشعور بالخزي لدى الأطفال

الملخص EN

The current research aimed to identify : Moral emotion (feeling of shame) according to the two variables : Age (6.

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11, 12) years Gender (male, female).

Statistically significant differences in moral emotion (feeling of shame) according to the two variables : Age (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) years .Gender (male, femal) The current research sample included (280) children from primary schools in the governorate of Baghdad on its two sides (Al-Karkh and Al-Rasafa), for ages (6.

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12) years, with (40) children for each age group equally between males and females.

The researcher adopted the Tangeny et al.

1996 scale designed to measure moral emotion (feeling of shame) in children, which included (14) items to measure shame.

The researcher verified the psychometric properties of the scale by extracting honesty and stability, and the stability coefficient of the shameful paragraphs reached (917.0).

The researcher used a number of statistical methods such as the t-test for one sample, the t-test for two independent samples, the Pearson correlation coefficient, the two- way analysis of variance with the interaction and the Cronbach's alpha equation, and the Scheffe test for dimensional comparisons The current research reached the following results: Children at the age of (6) years have a sense of shame .There are differences in the feeling of shame according to the ages (6.

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There are differences between males and females in the sense of shame and in favor of females.