{"id":3350,"date":"2015-06-02T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2015-06-02T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:35:21","slug":"the-developments-of-adolescents-moral-judgment-value-orientation-and-their-relations-to-sources-of-influence-on-moral-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"The Developments of Adolescents’ Moral Judgment, Value Orientation and Their Relations to Sources of Influence on Moral Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yu Kou<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology\u00a0Beijing Normal University<\/p>\n

We examined the correlates of the development of Chinese adolescents’ sources of influence on moral thought with their moral judgment, and with their value orientation. The SRM-SF (Sociomoral Reflection Measure-Short Form), MAS (Moral Authority Scale), VTS (Values Test Scale) were revised according to the culture background and educational ways of Chinese adolescents and then\u00a0were administered to 186 participants. The results showed that: (1) Test-retest reliability and internal consistency of SRM-SF, VTS and MAS subscales are appropriately high; and the instruments are also suitable to test Chinese adolescents’ moral development. (2) 10-12 and 13-15 years children are immaturity on their moral judgment, but 16-17 and 20-23 years students show their maturity. We found that 16-17 is critical period\u00a0of ages for moral judgment developing into maturity. There is no significant gender difference of moral judgment among the sum simples except among primary school children. However this priority disappears\u00a0when the children get into middle schools. (3) Main sources of influence on moral thought for Chinese adolescents are family, peer groups and educators, but dignity\/justice and self-interest replace them for university students. The different levels of moral judgment and the adolescents’ value-orientations are indeed dominated by the perceived sources of influence on moral thought. (4) Individualism-Authoritarism, Equalitarism-Authoritarism and Based needs-Authoritarism impact and split up each other in different stage of the age and situation. The adolescents in our samples think more highly of adapting themselves to circumstances and obeying authority, they pay little attention to expressing of their need and individualism. Their Authoritarism Orientation is disintegrated when they are in the high grade of primary school.<\/p>\n

Keywords: adolescent, moral judgment, value-orientation, sources of influence on moral thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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