Immanent Justice in Filipino Children and Youth.

The article describes an interesting concept in the literature on child growth and development which is the concept of immanent justice. Researchers reported that belief in immanent justice tends to increase with a decrease in chronological age. It can also be seen from their writings that belief in immanent justice is the belief in the automatic connection existing between the wrong that has been done and the physical event following the incident which serves as punishment for the misdeed. Such punishment is conceived to emanate either from the object itself or from a supernatural power. However, a review of other studies which are conducted to verify researchers theory reveal other factors which may influence the growth of immanent justice. All the aforementioned observations were obtained from investigations conducted on white and American Indian children and youth. Due to the absence of data regarding this aspect of moral development in people, it was deemed worthwhile and, therefore, necessary to conduct a study in order to gather information which will increase the knowledge on how this particular idea of justice grows and develops in Filipino children and youth.