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Structural flexibility of moral judgment.

D L Krebs1, K L Denton, S C Vermeulen

  • 1Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|December 1, 1991
PubMed
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This study examined Kohlberg

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Moral Development
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Kohlberg's theory of moral development posits that moral judgment operates as a holistic structure.
  • Empirical validation of this assumption, particularly across diverse dilemma types, is crucial for understanding moral reasoning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the structural integrity of moral judgment as proposed by Kohlberg's theory.
  • To examine moral maturity across different types of dilemmas and response perspectives.

Main Methods:

  • Thirty men and 30 women participated.
  • Participants responded to dilemmas from Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview, a prosocial dilemma, and an impaired driving dilemma.
  • Response perspective (self vs. hypothetical character) was manipulated for the latter two dilemmas.

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Main Results:

  • No significant differences in moral maturity were found based on sex or response perspective.
  • Participants exhibited highest moral maturity on Kohlberg's dilemmas, intermediate on the prosocial dilemma, and lowest on the impaired driving dilemma.
  • A negative linear relationship was observed between Kohlberg test scores and Stage 2 judgments on other dilemmas, partially supporting Kohlberg's concept of moral competence.

Conclusions:

  • The findings partially support Kohlberg's theory regarding the assessment of moral competence.
  • Moral judgment maturity may vary depending on the specific context and nature of the dilemma presented.
  • An interactional model of moral judgment is proposed to account for these variations.