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A Developmental and Ecological Investigation of Preschool Children's Environmental Moral Reasoning
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Julia C. Torquati; Donger Liu; Hyerim Shin – Environmental Education Research, 2025
We investigated direct experiences with nature and socialization as predictors of preschool-aged children's environmental moral reasoning. Children (n = 146; 52.7% male) from three U.S. states completed biophilia and environmental moral reasoning interviews. Parents (n=98) completed surveys about their children's activities in natural areas and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Natural Resources
Change in Moral Judgment of Teaching Interns in a Full-Year Internship
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Oja, Sharon Nodie; Graham, Suzanne E.; Andrew, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to investigate how moral development changes over time for teacher education master's students during their year-long internship. Data on the Defining Issues Test-2 was collected at three points in time during the full-year teaching internships (beginning, end of first semester, and end of second semester). These…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
The Relation of Moral Judgment Development and Educational Experience to Recall of Moral Narratives and Expository Texts
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Narvaez, Darcia; Gleason, Tracy – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2007
Moral text processing was used as an ecologically valid method for assessing implicit and explicit moral understanding and development. The authors tested undergraduates, seminarians, and graduate students in political science and philosophy for recall of moral narratives and moral expository texts. Multivariate analyses of covariance using…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Political Science, Predictor Variables
Individual Moral Judgment and Cultural Ideologies.
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Narvaez, Darcia; Getz, Irene; Rest, James R.; Thoma, Stephen J. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two studies examined how moral judgment and cultural ideology combine to predict moral thinking in members of a conservative church and a liberal church, and in a secular sample of university undergraduates. Found that a combination of religious ideology, political identity, and moral judgment predicted the church members' opinions on human-rights…
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, Churches, Cultural Influences
Adolescents' Self-Attributed Moral Emotions Following a Moral Transgression: Relations with Delinquency, Confidence in Moral Judgment and Age
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Krettenauer, Tobias; Eichler, Dana – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
The study investigates adolescents' self-attributed moral emotions following a moral transgression by expanding research with children on the happy-victimizer phenomenon. In a sample of 200 German adolescents from Grades 7, 9, 11, and 13 (M=16.18 years, SD=2.41), participants were confronted with various scenarios describing different moral rule…
Descriptors: Social Desirability, Adolescents, Value Judgment, Moral Development
Effects of Psychoeducation for Offenders in a Community Correctional Facility
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Liau, Albert K.; Shively, Randy; Horn, Mary; Landau, Jennifer; Barriga, Alvaro; Gibbs, John C. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of the EQUIP program. The psychoeducational curriculum was implemented in a community correctional facility for adult felony offenders. The psychoeducational curriculum is designed to remedy offenders' delays in moral judgment maturity, social cognitive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Value Judgment, Interpersonal Competence, Psychoeducational Methods