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Situational and Structural Variation in Youth Perceptions of Maternal Guilt Induction
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Rote, Wendy M.; Smetana, Judith G. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Parental induction of empathy-related guilt plays an important role in children's moral development. However, guilt induction can also be psychologically controlling and detrimental for youth adjustment. This study provided a more nuanced view of parental guilt induction by examining how the nature of a child's misdeed and the structure and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Moral Development
Comparing the Principle-Based SBH Maieutic Method to Traditional Case Study Methods of Teaching Media Ethics
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Grant, Thomas A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quasi-experimental study at a Northwest university compared two methods of teaching media ethics, a class taught with the principle-based SBH Maieutic Method (n = 25) and a class taught with a traditional case study method (n = 27), with a control group (n = 21) that received no ethics training. Following a 16-week intervention, a one-way…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Ethics, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
Can Ethics Be Taught? A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Impact of Class Size on the Cognitive Moral Reasoning of Freshmen Business Students
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Sullivan, Ethan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a business ethics course on the cognitive moral reasoning of freshmen business students. The sample consisted of 268 college students enrolled in a required business ethics course. The students took Rest's Defining Issues Test--Version 2 (DIT2) as a pre-test and then post-test (upon…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Class Size, Predictor Variables, Active Learning
Moral Reasoning of Education Students: The Effects of Direct Instruction in Moral Development Theory and Participation in Moral Dilemma Discussion
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Cummings, Rhoda; Maddux, Cleborne D.; Richmond, Aaron; Cladianos, Antonia – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Results of the few studies that have investigated moral reasoning in education students suggest that such reasoning may be less advanced for them than for college students with non-education majors and that education students do not appear to advance in moral reasoning from freshman to senior year. Purpose: The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study