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Enhancing moral growth: is communication the key?

N R Santilli1, L M Hudson

  • 1Center for Applied Cognitive Sciences, University of Toledo.

Adolescence
|January 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

Interpersonal skills training improved moral reasoning in college students by enhancing cognitive and social perspective-taking abilities. This intervention shows promise for fostering moral development, particularly for males who demonstrated significant gains.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Moral Development

Background:

  • Traditional interventions for moral growth, like Turiel's "+1" strategy, have limited success.
  • Potential reasons for failure include inconsistent control of cognitive and social prerequisites and overestimation of interpersonal skills.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effectiveness of interpersonal skills training on moral reasoning.
  • To examine the relationship between cognitive/social perspective-taking skills and moral growth.
  • To explore gender differences in social perspective-taking and their impact on moral development.

Main Methods:

  • Eight weeks of interpersonal skills training for 17 college undergraduates (basic or consolidated formal operations).
  • Pre- and posttraining assessments of social perspective-taking and moral reasoning.
  • Analysis of training effects on moral reasoning, considering prerequisite competencies.

Main Results:

  • Posttraining changes in moral reasoning were observed in the predicted direction.
  • Males showed significantly lower social perspective-taking at pretraining but significant gains posttraining.
  • Females maintained high social perspective-taking scores with no significant posttraining change.

Conclusions:

  • Interpersonal skills training supports moral reasoning development, contingent on prerequisite cognitive and perspective-taking abilities.
  • The findings align with existing theoretical models of cognitive and social development.
  • Gender differences in social perspective-taking development warrant further investigation within moral growth interventions.

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