Manifestations of moral development in concrete situations
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- moral development, manifestations, concrete situations, conflict
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One hundred college-age participants were asked to present a recently, personally-experienced, moral conflict which was coded according to the stages of development elaborated by Kohlberg. The results indicated that the area of conflict is a factor affecting the level of maturity expressed in the resolution of the conflict. Participants experiencing political and ideological conflicts resolved these conflicts on a more mature level of development than participants experiencing honesty or social conflicts. Participants experiencing sexual conflicts also resolved them on a more mature level than subjects experiencing honesty conflicts. No differences were found as a function of sex. Social conflicts were reported most often and legal conflicts least frequently. The results were discussed in terms of the differential responses to hypothetical and concrete moral conflicts.
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- 1973-02-01
- Issue
- Volume 1, 1973, Issue 1
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