Developing an understanding of the literature relating to the moral development of people with intellectual disabilities

Langdon, Peter E.; Clare, Isabel C. H.; Murphy, Glynis H.

doi:10.1016/j.dr.2010.01.001

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“…There were, however, two differences: (a) the effect of consequence was stronger in people with Down syndrome than in controls, and (b) the effect of intent was weaker in people with Down syndrome than in controls. These differences were consistent with (a) Langdon et al (2010) who suggested that moral development is delayed among people with intellectual disability, and (b) Morales et al (2015) who suggested that information integration abilities were relatively well preserved among people with Down syndrome.…”

Section: Blame Attribution Among People With Down Syndrome and Peoplesupporting

confidence: 78%

“…In their review, Langdon, Clare, and Murphy (2010) suggested that these people's progression through the different stages of moral reasoning was slower than the progression of typically developing controls. However, when cognitive ability was taken into account, differences between people with intellectual disability and controls vanished.…”

Section: Early Studies On Moral Development Among People With Developmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Imputación de culpa entre personas con desorden del desarrollo

Morales¹,

Rogé²

2016

Univ Psychol

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We synthesize the main findings from two studies that examined moral judgement abilities in people with autism, and in people with Down syndrome. In both studies, the way these people mentally combine information about the intent of a harmful act and the severity of its consequences when attributing blame to an offender was compared with that of typically developing controls. Adolescents and adults with autism or with Down syndrome were, practically to the same extent as controls, able to take into account both information pieces for attributing blame. It would be an exaggeration to imply that adolescents and adults with either autism or Down syndrome are severely immature in moral judgement based on the fact that they are usually not able to explain or justify their judgements with sophisticated philosophical arguments. By contrast, children with autism blame attribution appeared to be essentially based on consequence information. The finding that adolescents and adults with autism or Down syndrome are able to make moral judgements in a way that is not very different from adolescents and adults of the same age could influence the way these people are perceived, cared for, and attributed basic rights. KeywordsMoral Judgments, Autism, Down Syndrome, Offender. RESUMENSintetizamos las principales conclusiones de dos estudios que examinaron la capacidad de juicio moral en personas con autismo y en personas con síndrome de Down. En ambos estudios, la forma en que estas personas combinan mentalmente la información acerca de la intención que puede haber en un acto perjudicial y la gravedad de sus consecuencias cuando se atribuye la culpa a un delincuente, se comparó con la de un grupo control (con desarrollo normal). Adolescentes y adultos con autismo o con síndrome de Down fueron, prácticamente de la misma medida que los del grupo control, capaces de tener en cuenta ambas piezas de información para atribuir la culpa. Sería una exageración asegurar que los adolescentes y los adultos, ya sea con autismo o síndrome de Down son severamente inmaduros en sus juicios morales basado en el hecho de que por lo general no son capaces de explicar o justificar sus juicios con argumentos filosóficos sofisticados. Por el contrario, los niños con autismo que realizaron atribución de culpa parecían basarse esencialmente en la información sobre la consecuencia. El hallazgo de que los adolescentes y adultos con autismo o síndrome de Down son capaces de hacer juicios morales de una manera que no es muy diferente

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Section: Blame Attribution Among People With Down Syndrome and Peoplesupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Early Studies On Moral Development Among People With Developmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imputación de culpa entre personas con desorden del desarrollo

Morales¹,

Rogé²

2016

Univ Psychol

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“…On first glance, the positive correlation between moral development and distorted cognitions may appear counterintuitive, as more mature moral development should be associated with fewer distorted cognitions, considering there is a negative relationship between moral development and offending behaviours amongst adolescents (Stams et al, 2006). However, as previously reported and discussed in several studies, it appears the case that both men or women with IDs who have a history of criminal offending appear to have more "mature" moral development, in comparison to people with IDs and no such history; bearing in mind that both groups present with "immature" moral development in comparison to typically developing, chronological age matched peers (Langdon, Clare, & Murphy, 2010a, 2010bLangdon, Clare, & Murphy, 2011a;Langdon et al, 2010c;Langdon et al, 2011c;McDermott & Langdon, 2016).…”

Section: Hit-ids Questionnaire 12mentioning

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The reliabilty and validity of a revised version of the How I Think Questionnaire for men who have intellectual disabilities

Daniel

Sadek

Langdon

2017

Psychology, Crime & Law

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The aim of the current study was to revise an existing measure of distorted cognitions, creating the How I Think Questionnaire -Intellectual Disabilities (HIT-IDs), and to investigate the reliability and validity of the revised questionnaire. To achieve our aims, we recruited 97 men with intellectual disabilities (IDs), with or without a history of engaging in criminal behaviour, and interviewed them on two occasions, inviting them to complete the HIT-IDs, along with measures of moral development and empathy. The results indicated that the internal consistency of the HIT-IDs was acceptable, and the test-retest reliability was good. The HIT-IDs discriminated well between offenders and non-offenders, and as expected, correlated positively with a measure of moral development and negatively with a measure of empathy. The HIT-IDs is a reliable and valid measure for use with men who have IDs.

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“…Our results contribute additional evidence with respect to the association between intellectual functioning and MR (Derryberry & Barger, 2008;Derryberry et al, 2005;Langdon, Clare, & Murphy, 2010;Narvaez, 1993). Intelligence appears to be associated not only with MR involving universal moral situations presented in written format (Rest, 1979), but also with reasoning about the types of moral dilemmas that occur in daily life, as measured by the So-Moral task.…”

Section: Mr Maturity and Cognitive Functioningmentioning

confidence: 76%

Cognitive underpinnings of moral reasoning in adolescence: The contribution of executive functions

Vera-Estay

Dooley

Beauchamp

2014

Journal of Moral Education

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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 development of this function. The aim of this study was to explore predictors of MR in typically developing adolescents (n = 92, 33 males, M = 16.3 years, SD = 2.2 years) and the specific contribution of higher order cognitive processing using an innovative visual MR assessment tool and measures of executive functioning and intelligence. MR maturity was correlated with four executive functions (cognitive flexibility, feedback utilization, conceptual reasoning, verbal fluency) and was predicted by four variables: age, intelligence, nonverbal flexibility and verbal fluency. Overall, these results contribute to a better understanding of MR during adolescence and highlight the importance of using innovative tools to measure social cognition.

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Developing an understanding of the literature relating to the moral development of people with intellectual disabilities

Cited by 33 publications

References 59 publications

Imputación de culpa entre personas con desorden del desarrollo

Imputación de culpa entre personas con desorden del desarrollo

The reliabilty and validity of a revised version of the How I Think Questionnaire for men who have intellectual disabilities

Cognitive underpinnings of moral reasoning in adolescence: The contribution of executive functions

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