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Buchanan, David R. – Health Education Quarterly, 1992
In a study of the relationship between moral reasoning and teenage drug use, problems arose in an attempt to reduce qualitative data to a quantitative format: (1) making analytic sense of singular and universal responses; (2) the mistaken logical inference that each pattern of judgment should have behavioral indicators; and (3) construction and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Data Interpretation, Illegal Drug Use, Inferences
Blake, Catherine A. – 1985
Lawrence Walker's (1984) meta-analysis of 108 samples concluded that there are no sex differences in stages of moral reasoning. This paper reviews Walker's work and points out that some of his analyses, however, are controversial and favored unwarranted conclusions. Walker neither tested the hypothesis that males are more advanced than females in…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Hypothesis Testing, Meta Analysis, Moral Development
