Impact of earning on young children's sharing behaviour

BALCI A., Kotaman H., ASLAN M.

EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CARE, cilt.191, sa.11, ss.1757-1764, 2021 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 191 Sayı: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/03004430.2019.1674294
  • Dergi Adı: EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CARE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1757-1764
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Prosocial, costly sharing, young children, income, earning, REWARD-DESERVEDNESS, INTERVENTION, ALTRUISM, INFANTS
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of earning stickers compared to receiving them for free on kindergarteners' (5-6-year-old) sharing behaviours. Children's sharing behaviours were measured with the Dictator Game. Seven weeks after the first application, each child performed a matching dots to numbers activity. Thus, each child gained stickers as a result of his/her endeavour and success. The results of one-way ANOVA and logistic regression did not reveal gender, age and income as significant contributors for young children's sharing behaviours. The findings have shown that young children's sharing behaviours significantly decrease when they earn stickers rather than receive them for free without any effort. In other words, children's sharing behaviours decreased 10.4% when they were asked to share something that they had earned as a reward compared to when those rewards were just given to them for free.