The Developmental Process of Types of Egocentrism Using Content Analysis of Children and Adolescents’ Books

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Roghyeh Balali ¹

1 - Postgraduate of Psychology Tehran University

Received: 2015-06-07 Accepted : 2015-06-07 Published : 2004-12-21

Keywords: Content Analysis, child and adolescent literature, types of egocentrism,

Abstract :

The development of different types of egocentrism were analysed on the basis of piagetian theory in the books published from 1996-1998 in four different age groups. The study was conducted through content analysis of a sample of 30 book titles selected from sources available at the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents. Tabular and graphical representation of data were made using descriptive analysis. Results indicated: (1) In most books, specially those written by Iranian writers, different types of indirect egocentrism were portrayed, (2) Foreign writers have helped children to decentrate their egocentrism more than Iranian writers, (3) A very low level of inter-rated compatibility between judgments made by experts at the Supreme Council of Literature Research Documents could be attributed to the diverse view points of judges