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Moral judgment in retrospect
Author(s) -
WESTMAN MARTIN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1986.tb01214.x
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , defining issues test , psychology , moral development , moral reasoning , social cognitive theory of morality , moral psychology , test (biology) , social psychology , moral disengagement , developmental psychology , paleontology , biology
A strategy of retrospective observation was applied to the study of developmental change in moral judgment. Swedish‐speaking Finnish university students ( N=55 ) indicated their own previous as well as their present moral preferences on Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT). In line with expectations derived from Kohlberg's theory of moral development, these “simulated” longitudinal data gave a general picture of developmental progress. Brief written descriptions by the subjects of changes in their own moral views were partly consistent with the simulated change indicated on the DIT.