A Research in China Based on the Moral Judgement Test

• Authors: Shaogang Yang , Huihong Wu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this research we use “the Moral Judgment Test” as an instrument that is developed by Professor Georg Lind in 1976, but is a Chinese version with some revisions, with 724 students whose ages are from 14 years old to 27 years old as the participants. The results show that: the C-scores are increased with the increase of the students’ age, but there are some fluctuations among different grades. It is obvious that the school education do could improve students’ abilities of moral judgment, but there exist some instability factors. There are no significant differences in their C-scores between male and female students, among different grades within certain schools and universities, and among students with various professions, the key schools and the regular schools as well as the two-year and the four-year college students.

Keywords

EN

Moral Judgment Test; C scores; China; Adolescents

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2011-09-01

Contributors

author

Shaogang Yang

• Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

author

Huihong Wu

• Hohai University

References

• Gu., M. (Ed.) (2002). Dictionary of Education. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.
• Kohlberg, L. (1964). Development of Moral Character and Moral Ideology. In: M. L. Hoffman & L. W. Hoffman (Eds.), Review of child development research, Vol. I. New York: Russel Sage Foundation, pp. 381–431.
• Lickona, T. (1991). Educating for character: How our schools can teach respect and responsibility. New York: Bantam Books.
• Lind, G. (1982). Experimental Questionnaires: A New Approach to Personality Research. In A Kossakowski & K. Obuchowski (Eds.), Progress in psychology of personality (pp. 132-144). Amsterdam, NL: Northholland.
• Lind, G. (1999). Scoring of the Moral Judgment Test (MJT). Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
• Piaget, J. (1965). The moral judgment of the child. New York: The Free Press.
• Wu, H. (2005). A new visual angle of moral research: The theoretical and empirical research of the Moral Judgment Test. An unpublished master thesis in Nanjing Normal University.
• Yang, S. & Wu, H. (2008). The Features of Moral Judgment Test among Chinese Adolescents. Asia Pacific Education Review. Vol. 9 (3).
• Zhao, Z. (2003). A correlatiive research on volunteer service activities and moraldevelopment of the senior high school students. An unpublished master thesis inHebei Normal University

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2012.1.7