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Measuring Nurses' Moral Judgments
Author(s) -
Parker Randy Spreen
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1990.tb00216.x
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , moral reasoning , construct (python library) , moral development , psychology , social cognitive theory of morality , moral dilemma , construct validity , moral disengagement , moral psychology , social psychology , defining issues test , epistemology , social intuitionism , cronbach's alpha , psychometrics , developmental psychology , philosophy , computer science , programming language
Studies of the moral reasoning of nurses yield inconsistent findings. Using Cronbach and Meehl's interpretive framework, the author demonstrates the lack of construct validity for Kohlberg's theory of moral development and related measures of moral reasoning. Gilligan's relational theory of moral orientations is proposed as an alternative theory worth testing in nurse samples.