Examined relationship between empathy and ego development to determine whether empathy is characteristic of higher levels of ego development. Subjects completed the Affective Sensitivity Scale and the Loevinger Sentence Completion Test. Analyses of scores indicated subjects at higher levels of ego development had higher empathy scores than those…

To study the influence of peer interaction on children's moral development, children ages five to nine were videotaped in triads during peer discussions of a distributive justice problem. Discussions were analyzed to determine the social-interactional characteristics of children who advanced during the peer encounter. Implications for theories of…

Highlights Piaget's stages of development and discusses their implications for better parenting. (MP)

Discusses six changes and challenges which will affect the role of the consultant and trainer in the 80s: (1) population change, (2) value change, (3) changing organizations, (4) changing communications, (5) better utilization of human resources, and (6) leadership creativity and initiative. (JOW)

Discusses ethics from a group practitioner's viewpoint in seven articles. Presents specific ethical issues in implementing group techniques, especially confidentiality. Summarizes survey results from 12 group experts' descriptions of critical group work incidents. Considers ethical development training for group leaders and program evaluation and…

Elaborates Kohlberg's six stages of moral development and applies this theory to a course to train union stewards for processing grievances. Discusses other applications in labor education. (SK)

Examined preschool children's conceptions of moral and conventional rules. Children judged the seriousness, rule contingency, rule relativism, and amount of deserved punishment for 10 depicted moral and conventional preschool transgressions. Constant across ages and sexes, children evaluated moral transgressions as more serious offenses and more…

Summarizes positions in favor of and opposed to euthanasia. Presents suggestions for discussing euthanasia in high school biology classes. (MA)

An experience in values clarification about euthanasia is described. (PBS)

Erik Erikson has described eight stages of the healthy personality. This essay offers a revised version of the eight stages. Although most individuals develop through the eight stages, each is personally unique because patterns of fluctuation between safety and growth differ from one individual to another. (Author)

This study evaluated the effectiveness, in the natural classroom environment, of brief moral training programs using an indirect approach, where correct responses are not directly identified and reinforced. Two areas of moral thinking were tested: children's reasons for doing good and delay of gratification. The training proved effective.…

Reports an attempt to test two interpretations of immanent justice responses as causal attributions rather than as moral judgments. Finds older children use causal chains to explain contiguity between misdeed and adversity. Data were interpreted as consistent with an information-processing model of immanent justice responses. (RMH)

Teaching for values instead of knowledge would significantly change education. Could the psychosocial values of goodness, beauty, search for truth, social organization, and economics be rank ordered? Can and how should such life-survival values as health, sex, aggression and self-defense, language, and love be taught in school? (Author/SB)

Reports on a study conducted to investigate Kohlberg's allegation that his test discerns between form and content in moral development. Indicates that the aspect of form which he measures is probably general intellectual development that rePresents norms that the school intentionally transmits to pupils. (JD)

Those who preferred principled levels of moral reasoning were seen as being dependable, rational, creative, intelligent, and accepting of rules and constraints of society, but at the same time, able to think independently and aware of the need for change. (Author)