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Gill, Anneliese; Trask-Kerr, Kylie; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Identifying different conceptions of success and how these relate to wellbeing is an important area of research. These insights would be especially beneficial for young people who can be guided through school education to reflect on core values, life goals, and indices of success to promote aspirations that will be conducive to wellbeing. Through…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Success, Well Being, Secondary School Students
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Lee, Bora; Landberg, Monique; Lee, Ki-Hak – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2016
This study examined how the endorsement of work values changed over time and investigated the role of socioeconomic status in the development of work values. A 5-year longitudinal sample of Korean adolescents was used. Three work values were measured: Extrinsic reward, working conditions, and personal development. Findings indicate that Korean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Rewards
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
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Hart, Daniel; Fegley, Suzanne – Child Development, 1995
Examined the self-understanding and moral judgment of 15 African American and Hispanic American adolescents nominated by community leaders for their exemplary caring behavior. These "care exemplars" were more likely than comparison adolescents to describe themselves in terms of moral personality traits and goals and to view themselves as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Individual Development
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Ben-Ari, Adital Tirosh; Azaiza, Faisal – Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
Examines 662 Arab adolescents' commitments to their own self-development, family, Arab people, and village along with the order in which these commitments are structured. Reveals that the two prevalent patterns of adolescent commitment, individualistic and collectivistic, demonstrate the adolescents' struggle with these value systems and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Family Influence
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Conroy, James C. – Journal of Moral Education, 1999
Analyzes the confusion in the language of political economy in Great Britain that generates and sustains moral infantilism in the civil polity. Critiques the limits of recent approaches to moral education. Sketches the relationship between the use of interpretative understanding and Jungian insights in support of poetry in moral engagement.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Practices, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Perry, Constance M.; McIntire, Walter G. – Adolescence, 1995
Found that early adolescents use various models to make moral decisions. These include care (wishing others not to suffer), justice (decisions made according to principles), and narrowly concerned or selfish. Males and females used all three modes, with males being more likely to choose the narrowly concerned mode. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills, Individual Development
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Thoma, Stephen J.; Rest, James R. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Assessed the relationship between a measure of consolidation and transition in moral-judgment development and utility of moral concepts in sociomoral decision making in multiple cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. Found that participants' reliance on a Kohlbergian moral framework was highest during periods of consolidation and lowest during…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Decision Making
Mayton, Daniel M., II; And Others – 1992
Individuals such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully employed nonviolent strategies to attain significant political goals. Despite the implications of these achievements, psychologists rarely have studied predispositions to nonviolent behavior empirically. This study investigated the relationships among nonviolent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior, Behavior Problems