Table 3.
Predictors of Prosocial Moral Reasoning Level Usage: Hierarchical Regression Analyses
| Criterion | Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictors | B | (SE B) | β | B | (SE B) | β | B | (SE B) | β |
| Step 1 | |||||||||
| Wave 1 FBU | −.01 | (.04) | −.03 | −.01 | (.04) | −.03 | −.02 | (.04) | −.03 |
| Wave 1 EU | .01 | (.02) | .05 | .03 | (.01) | .19 * | −.01 | (.02) | −.06 |
| Step 2 | |||||||||
| Wave 2 FBU | −.02 | (.06) | −.04 | −.07 | (.04) | −.14 | .03 | (.06) | .05 |
| Wave 2 AR-EU | .00 | (.02) | .01 | −.01 | (.02) | −.05 | .06 | (.02) | .26** |
| Step 3 | |||||||||
| Wave 1 FBU X EU | −.01 | (.01) | −.18 † | −.01 | (.01) | −.20 * | .00 | (.01) | −.03 |
Note. FBU = false-belief understanding; EU = basic emotion understanding; AR-EU = Appearance-reality emotion understanding; FBU X EU = Interaction between Wave 1 false-belief and emotion understanding.
†
p < .10,
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01.