School-aged Children’s Understanding of Authentic Pride and Hubristic Pride
LIAO Yi-fan1 ZHAI Shu-yi2 HE Jie2
1. College of Design and Innovation, Fujian Jiangxia University, Fuzhou 350108, China; 2. Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China
Abstract:The current work investigated 8-year-old and 11-year-old children’s understanding of authentic pride and hubristic pride via situational stories. The current research showed that: (1) Children can discriminatively understand authentic pride and hubristic pride based on effort information; they attributed more authentic pride to the protagonists high in effort. (2) For protagonists high in ability, children attributed both more authentic pride and hubristic pride to them. (3) Children rated authentic pride more socially acceptable than hubristic pride. The results provide a supplement to the two-dimensional model of pride and have implications for emotional education of school-aged children.