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A Longitudinal Study of Religious‐moral Values in Late Adolescence
Author(s) -
Sutherland Peter
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192880140106
Subject(s) - psychology , likert scale , social psychology , value (mathematics) , moral development , religious education , religious values , cohort , moral education , social value orientations , longitudinal study , values education , developmental psychology , pedagogy , theology , medicine , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , islam , economics , microeconomics
The same cohort of B.Ed, students were studied during their four years at college by means of value priority and Likert attitude scales and interviews. Personal activities were increasingly more highly rated than religious or moral; only ‘core’ religious activities resisted this trend. Mean religious attitudes were negative only in Year 3. However mean moral attitudes became increasingly more negative in Years 3 and 4 than in previous years. Interview data pointed to the fifth and sixth forms as being more crucial than the college years for value formation, with the peer group as the key influence.