The Birth of Personality

Part 1 General problems of the study: theoretical perspective; independence and morality as two aspects of a matured personality; verbal and actual behaviour as two forms of the development of personality; experimental analysis of motivation of real behaviour in preschool-age children. Part 2 The formation of independent behaviour among preschoolers: an experimental analysis of conformity and independence; enhancing independent behaviour in preschoolers - interventional studies; the role of style of social interaction in the development of conformative and independent behaviour in preschoolers. Part 3 The moral development of the preschool child: moral judgement and moral conduct; verbal and actual moral behaviour - an experimental study; the role of peer and adult external control in children's pragmatic moral conduct; parent's concepts about the age of moral responsibility; parental attitudes towards childrearing and children's moral behaviour; influence of the positive and negative experience of social interaction on subsequent moral behaviour; enhancing moral behaviour in a classroom - interventional studies; stages of moral development of preschoolers - a general model. Part 4 Independence and moral behaviour: diagnostics and development.