著者

山岸 明子

出版者

一般社団法人 日本教育心理学会

雑誌

教育心理学研究 (ISSN:00215015)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, no.2, pp.97-106, 1976-06-30 (Released:2013-02-19)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

6 3

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The purpose of this study is to investigate moral judgement in children and youth based on the theory and the method of Kohlberg, L., and to examine the availability of his method and the validity of stage sequences in Japan whose culture is different from the U. S. A..In this study, moral judgement was analysed from how children and youth understood various moral norms which were imposed on them by adults or society, and what their standards of right-wrong were.Four of the Kohlberg's stories involving moral dilemmas, translated and slightly modified, were given to 19 5 th-, 20 8 th-, 20 11 th-graders and 16 college students. They were asked to answer in writing what one of the characters of each story should do and why, and later, to respond in an interview to additional clarifying questions. Their responses were analysed in detail by issue scoring method which examined what their basic orientation to moral issues was, and classified into one of 5 stages,(stage 5 and 6 were not distinguished). Two scorers' rating 40 Ss independently were in close agreement.The results were as follows;1) Distributions of stages among the subjects were as shown in TABLE 5. It showed age-dependent development of moral judgement and supported the Kohlberg's theory.2) As to sex differences, such tendency was found. that in girls there were more who had stage 3 orien tation (but not statistically sighificant).3) In Japan there were more who belonged to stage 3 than in U. S. A., overall age except among college students.