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Langford, Peter E.; Claydon, Leslie F. – 1988
This document reports on two studies that used a novel approach to categorize justifications for moral judgments made by Australian subjects from 7 to 15 and from 7 to 21 years of age. The coding categories consisted of levels of abstraction and reflection. Level of abstraction was determined by the reference group used in justifications. Levels…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Langford, Peter E.; D'Cruz, J. Vin – 1988
Reported are two studies of the categorization of adolescents' justifications for the morality of others' actions. To analyze interview data, a new method of scoring moral judgments was developed. Study 1, involving 180 individuals from 12 to 21 years of age, focused on dimensions of reflection and abstraction associated with four categories of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
