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Park, Jong Young; Johnson, Ronald C. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1984
Among Koreans tested on Rest's Defining Issues Test, females, urban people, and older subjects showed significantly more responses demonstrating principled morality than did males, rural people, and younger subjects. Comparisons with American results showed greater age differences in stages of moral development among Americans. Both groups showed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
Moon, Yong Lin – 1985
This paper reviews 20 cross-cultural studies conducted with the Defining Issues Test (DIT). All or part of the samples in the studies were non-Americans who had not been a part of the populations presented in the DIT manual. The studies were aimed at the comparison of moral reasoning structure and development across cultures. Several aspects of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Criteria