Summary
Self-regulation, or self-control, refers to the ability to regulate one’s impulses, behavior, and/or emotions until an appropriate time, place, or object is available for expression.
Antisocial behavior includes any behavior that harms other people, such as aggression, violence, and crime.
Prosocial behavior includes any behavior that benefits other people, such as altruism, sharing, and cooperation.
Morals encompass an individual’s evaluation of what is right and wrong. They involve acceptance of rules that govern one’s behavior toward others. Morality involves feeling, reasoning, and behavior.
One’s moral code develops through social interaction and reflects one’s level of intellectual development, as well as one’s attitudes. It involves awareness of alternatives, the ability to take another’s perspective, and the ability to
make judgments, as well as feelings about conformity and autonomy.
Influences on moral development are situational contexts
and individual characteristics.
Gender roles, or sex types, are the qualities that individuals understand as characterizing males and females in their culture.
Males and females are born biologically different and consequently behave differently. Socialization practices maximize gender differences; girls and boys are channeled into sex-typed behaviors valued by their culture.
Gender-role development is influenced by the family (parenting practices and siblings), the peer group (pressure to conform), the school (differential treatment of males and females), the community (role models), and the media (screen, print, audio, and interactive)