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"Because They Are a Part of Life": Children's Ideas about the Welfare, Rights, and Protection of Animals and Ecosystems
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Renata Roma; Christine Tardif-Williams; Sandra Bosacki – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
This exploratory study assessed links among children's moral concern and their ideas about the rights and protection of companion, farm, wild animals and ecosystems. Sixty-one children responded to three interview questions that were coded as either anthropocentric or biocentric in orientation. Results revealed unique links among children's moral…
Descriptors: Animals, Wildlife, Moral Values, Animal Husbandry
Development of Moral Reasoning in Situational and Cultural Contexts
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Lo, Jesse Ho-Yin; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This article examines relationships between children and youths' judgments and their justifications of truth telling and verbal deception, in situational and cultural contexts. Han Chinese, Euro-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, seven- to 17-years of age were presented competitive scenarios in which protagonists told either lies to protect, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Context, Ethics, Sociocultural Patterns
Children's Moral Self-Concept: The Role of Aggression and Parent-Child Relationships
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Sengsavang, Sonia; Krettenauer, Tobias – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined the role of aggressiveness and parenting in the development of children's moral self-concept. Participants were 198 elementary school children and their parents (M = 8.65 years, SD = 2.44). Participants completed a structured moral self puppet interview and a questionnaire about their relationship to parents. Parents completed…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Aggression, Parent Child Relationship, Role
Violent Video Gaming and Moral Reasoning in Adolescents: Is There an Association?
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Bajovic, Mirjana – Educational Media International, 2013
In this study of 109 adolescents from the eighth grade of seven public elementary schools in Canada, the relationship between adolescents' violent video game playing patterns, habits and attitudes, and their levels of moral reasoning was investigated. The results suggested that playing violent video games in general was a very popular activity…
Descriptors: Violence, Video Games, Moral Values, Moral Development
Cognitive Underpinnings of Moral Reasoning in Adolescence: The Contribution of Executive Functions
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Vera-Estay, E.; Dooley, J. J.; Beauchamp, M. H. – Journal of Moral Education, 2015
Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by intense changes, which impact the interaction between individuals and their environments. Moral reasoning (MR) is an important skill during adolescence because it guides social decisions between right and wrong. Identifying the cognitive underpinnings of MR is essential to understanding the…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Developmental Stages, Adolescents
Moral Reasoning, Academic Dishonesty, and Business Students
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Bélanger, Charles H.; Leonard, Valorie M.; LeBrasseur, Rolland – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This study links moral reasoning, academic dishonesty, and business students. Undergraduate business students (N = 1357) from eight Ontario (Canada) universities responded to a survey to express their perceptions and expectations of their academic environment and the variables that can help them to understand what is morally right and what is…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cheating, Business Administration Education, Correlation