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Ego Development and the Ethics of Care and Justice: The Relations Among Them Revisited
Author(s) -
Skoe Eva E. A.,
Lippe Anna L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.05016
Subject(s) - loevinger's stages of ego development , psychology , id, ego and super ego , norwegian , defining issues test , social psychology , economic justice , verbal reasoning , ethics of care , moral reasoning , variance (accounting) , developmental psychology , cognition , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , business , neoclassical economics , accounting , neuroscience , economics
This study examined the links among ego development and the ethics of care and justice in 144 Norwegian men and women, 15 to 48 years old, taking into consideration age, sex, education, and verbal intelligence. As expected, the relationship between Loevinger's model of ego development and care‐based moral reasoning as measured with Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview (ECI) was significantly stronger than the one between ego development and justice as measured with Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT). Both ethics correlated significantly with verbal ability. Analyses showed that beyond its overlap with verbal intelligence, the variance shared between the ECI and ego development was substantial. By contrast, when verbal intelligence was controlled, the DIT was not significantly related to ego development or to the care ethic.