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The Relation between the Ethics of Personal Conscience-Social Responsibility and Principled Moral Reasoning.

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Gutkin, Daniel C.; Suls, Jerry – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1979

College students were tested on Hogan's Survey of Ethical Attitudes, Rest's Defining Issues Test, Collins' revision of Rotter's Internal-External Scale, and Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale. Subjects who endorsed personal conscience showed greater maturity in moral reasoning. The subjects who advocated social responsibility tended to show more…

Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Higher Education, Locus of Control

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Schave, Barbara; Fox, Frank – Educational Research Quarterly, 1987

Personality correlations between dominant and nondominant twins were investigated. For locus of control, the correlation was nonsignificant for identical twins but significant for fraternal twins. For moral development, the correlations were significant for both types of twins. Generally speaking, the relationship between parental personality and…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Locus of Control, Moral Development