Helping behavior viewed from the recipients’ standpoints : The judgment of elementary and junior high school students and implications for Moral Education
The purpose of this study is to clarify the helping behavior viewed from the recipients’ standpoints. A total of 533 elementary and junior high school students responded to our survey. The respondents were asked whether they want to be helped or not in following three situations: (1) you fall down; (2) you forget your homework; (3) you are crying behind the school building. As a result, we found that junior high school students generally want less helping behavior than elementary school students. For example, in situation 3, the elementary school students wanted to be helped, while most 8th- and 9th-grade students did not want to be helped. These results are useful in Moral Education to nurture the altruism.本稿は平成25-28年度日本学術振興会科学研究費（研究代表者：宮里智恵）の助成を受け，実施された研究の一部である
