Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Developmental:
Kohlberg 1968
- Procedure
- 9 hypothetical moral dilemmas
- Represented a conflict
between two moral issues
- Answers analysed
- Used to construct the stage theory
- Re-interviewed every three years
- open questions
- Should Heins steal the drug?
Why or why not?
- Evaluation
- sample
- only boys
- gender-biased
- women more focused
on relationships
- male morality different to
female morality
- external validity
- the questions may have been
confusing
- Gilligan 1982: not
real-life decisions
- social desirability
- what they think
not what they do
- a theory of reasoning
- present behaviour
idealistically
- Conclusions
- stages
- invariant and
universal
- more equilibriated
through each stage
- 3 large stages
(two small ones
in each)
- Methdology
- interviews
- participants
- 10-16 and 22-28
- 75 American boys
- Also GB, Canada,
Taiwan, Mexico and
Turkey
- Longitudinal
- Qualitative data
- Findings
- Younger children
thought at the
conventional
stage
- Older children focused
their decisions on doing
good
- changes in
moral thinking
- pre-conventional,
conventional and
post-conventional