# DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING IN THE FAMILY

> **NIH NIH R01** · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · 1993 · $122,672

## Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the development of children's
social and moral understanding, and the connections between this social
understanding, their close relationships with family members and with
friends, and their self concepts in their early school years.  The
relations between children's early family experiences, and their social
understanding, relationships with friends and family and self concepts
during the kindergarten and first grade years will be examined in a
sample of 50 children previously studied as preschoolers as part of the
investigator's ongoing research (HD-23158-02).  The children will be
observed and interviewed at home with mothers, siblings and friends, at
the start and towards the end of their kindergarten year and of their
first grade year.  Naturalistic observations will focus on the children's
negotiations in disputes, their conversations about the social world, and
their cooperation in pretend play.  Their reasoning about transgressions,
conceptions of conflict resolution, their understanding of others'
emotions and of the relations of belief to action, their perceived self
competence, and accounts of stress at school will be assessed in
interviews and experimental procedures.  Information on school
experiences and adjustment will be obtained from teachers.  Developments
in understanding of sociomoral rules and in the nature of close
friendship will be described; competing hypotheses about the processes
influencing individual differences in social understanding and friendship
relations will be examined.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2198779
- **Project number:** 5R01HD023158-06
- **Recipient organization:** PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
- **SAM.gov UEI:** NPM2J7MSCF61
- **Principal Investigator:** JUDITH F DUNN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $122,672
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1988-05-01 → 1995-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2198779

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2198779, DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING IN THE FAMILY (5R01HD023158-06). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-24 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2198779. Licensed CC0.

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