Moral Development and Parent Behavior Antecedents in Adolescent Psychopaths

Fodor, Eugene M.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1973.10533168

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“…The insignificant correlation between Antisocial Egocentricity and the P-score is, however, unexpected and contradictory to previous findings (Anchor and Cross, 1974;Campagna and Harter, 1975;Fodor, 1973).…”

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“…They argued that moral development indices could be used to differentiate between delinquents. Evidence that people with psychopathic features tend to display lower levels of moral judgment was also found by Fodor (1973), Campagna and Hatter (1975) and Anchor and Cross (1974).…”

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“…Biographical data were to a large extent ignored. Data that allegedly could differentiate between youthful offenders are, e.g., the socio-economic background (Cloward and Ohlin, 1960;Cohen, 1955;Short, 1968), the type of offense (Wattenberg and Balistrieri, 1952;Kraus, 1974), the presence or absence of the father (Oshman and Manosevitz, 1976;Virkkunen, 1976), the father's disciplinary role (Fodor, 1973;Robins, 1966) and the delinquent's intellectual abilities (Tennent and Gath, 1975). (b) The reliability indices for the behavioral dimension Inadequacy-immaturity are very low (Engelhart and Serednesky,'1975;Quay and Parsons, 1972;Schuck, Dubeck, Cymbalisty and Green, 1972).…”

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Moral judgment and behavioral dimensions of juvenile delinquency

Heyns

Niekerk

Roux

1981

Int J Adv Counselling

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The relationship of levels of moral reasoning to behavioral dimensions of juvenile delinquency was investigated, using 162 delinquent boys in a reformatory. After adding biographical data to the Quay Behavioral Classification Instruments, four second-order factors were obtained, interpreted as a social inadequacy, an obstreperousness, a social orientation and an antisocial egocentricity factor. The principled morality score of Rest's Defining Issues Test correlated negatively with a social inadequacy score while a score measuring morality of rules and duty to social order correlated with a score indicating a group inclined social orientation. Unexpectedly delinquents with antisocial egocentristic tendencies did not display lower principled morality scores. Some evidence for the validity of Quay's Inadequacy-immaturity dimension was found_

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Moral judgment and behavioral dimensions of juvenile delinquency

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1981

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“…These relatively severe delinquents have a 40% increased risk for developing antisocial personality disorder (Kazdin, 1995). Several studies have found juvenile delinquents with psychopathic disorder to lag behind in moral judgment compared to other delinquent youth (Campagna & Harter, 1975;Fodor, 1973).…”

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The Moral Judgment of Juvenile Delinquents: A Meta-Analysis

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Brugman

Deković

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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A meta-analysis of 50 studies was conducted to investigate whether juvenile delinquents use lower levels of moral judgment than their nondelinquent age-mates and, if so, what factors may influence or moderate the developmental delay. The results show a lower stage of moral judgment for juvenile delinquents (d=.76). Effect sizes were large for comparisons involving male offenders, late adolescents, delinquents with low intelligence, and incarcerated delinquents. The largest effect sizes were found for period of incarceration and comparisons involving juvenile delinquents with psychopathic disorder. Production instead of recognition measures, dilemma-free assessment methods, and non-blind scoring procedures yielded relatively large effect sizes, whereas effect sizes were medium for comparisons involving delinquents with average intelligence, non-incarcerated delinquents, female offenders, as well as early and middle adolescents. Psychopathic disorder and institutionalization were identified as unique moderators of the link between moral judgment and juvenile delinquency. It is concluded that developmentally delayed moral judgment is strongly associated with juvenile delinquency, even after controlling for socioeconomic status, gender, age and intelligence.

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“…Thus, in order to clarify the cognitive developmental position, the family's influence on moral judgement development was forcefully de-emphasized in early explorations of the impact of social environments on development. Cognitive developmental research on moral judgement within the family has been fairly limited throughout the past 20 years, with less than ten dissertations on the topic (Azrak, 1978;Grimes, 1974;Holstein, 1969;Parikh, 1975;Peterson, 1976;Powers, 1982;Shoffeit, 1971;and Speicher-Dubin, 1982) and a handful of published articles (Azrak, 1980;Fodor, 1973;Haan, Langer and Kohlberg, 1976;Hudgins and Prentice, 1973;Jurkovic and Prentice, 1974;andStanley, 1978,1980). The family environment is now recognized by cognitive developmentalists as a potentially very important, though not exclusive contributor to moral judgement development.…”

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Moral Judgement Development Within the Family

Powers

1988

Journal of Moral Education

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This paper examines research and theory regarding the process of moral judgement development within the family environment. Four major issues in research on the family's influence on moral judgement development are outlined and the existing data relevant to these issues are briefly presented. The author's approach to studying these issues is described. The implications of research on moral development within the family for moral education are also addressed.This special issue of the Journal of Moral Education is a testament to the power of Lawrence Kohlberg's formulation of the development of moral reasoning and to his personal largesse as a teacher. Kohlberg will perhaps best be remembered in the fields of developmental psychology and education for his seminal contribution of defining stages of moral reasoning, constructing a reliable method for their assessment, and investigating hypotheses concerning the invariant sequence and universality of the stages. Equally important, however, was Kohlberg's commitment to theoretical and empirical work examining and clarifying the process of moral development. He described this process as a product of interaction between the social environment and an individual's internal cognitive structures. Building upon Piaget's formulation of the process of intellectual development, he emphasized that the primary catalyst for moral development was exposure to social environments that produce cognitive conflict by providing opportunities to take the role of others.Kohlberg supervised and collaborated in a wide variety of studies investigating the role of social environments in facilitating the development of moral reasoning. The majority of these studies examined school settings. These studies provided evidence that school environments stimulate moral development when they, (1) encourage participation in the social governance and decision-making structures of the school and, thereby, provide opportunities to consider the roles of all individuals affected by school policies and moral decisions (Higgins, Power and Kohlberg, 1984;Power, Higgins and Kohlberg, 1988), and, (2) provide exposure to different levels of moral reasoning in order to create cognitive conflict (Turiel,

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Moral Development and Parent Behavior Antecedents in Adolescent Psychopaths

Cited by 43 publications

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Moral judgment and behavioral dimensions of juvenile delinquency

Moral judgment and behavioral dimensions of juvenile delinquency

The Moral Judgment of Juvenile Delinquents: A Meta-Analysis

Moral Judgement Development Within the Family

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