Moral Judgment in Delinquents and Nondelinquents: Recognition<i>Versus</i>Production Measures

Gavaghan, Mary; Arnold, Kevin D.; Gibbs, John C.

doi:10.1080/00223980.1983.9915424

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“…Moreover, delinquents scored way lower than the non-delinquents in terms of the level of ego development indicating that these children have failed in the development of their characters and personalities. Studies have shown that delinquents who lack character development are more likely to be abused by their parents and have lacked the care and discipline which would help them to control their impulses [19,20,21,22]. The family status between the delinquents and nondelinquents did, in fact, shed some light on the background for the test of ego development that was carried out in this study.…”

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confidence: 83%

Ego Development in Juvenile Delinquency among Bahraini Youths

Alfulaij¹

2017

int.jour.sci.res.mana

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Abstract:The rapid modernization in the Kingdom of Bahrain has brought wealth and prosperity but also many stresses in its traditional social roles and relations. The advent of juvenile delinquency is regarded as a symptom of such social changes. In this study, certain measures were administered to a group of 30 juvenile offenders which were compared with those of 30 high school pupils who had no prior record of delinquency. Interrelations with delinquency versus non-delinquency statuses were hypothesized among the following study variables; family conditions, measured by the Parental Acceptance/Rejection Questionnaire and the ego development, measured by the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. Both these instruments were tested before by translation into Arabic and application on Arabic populations. The results showed that certain social and economic status criteria were significantly related to the delinquency status. Discriminant analysis revealed that level of ego development contributed enormously more to the prediction than any single another variable. Significant contributions were also made by the level of mother's education, of father's occupation and other family conditions such as the father being married to more than one wife and mothers being strictly housewives only. These findings reveal social psychological changes due to rapid modernization that affect the core of the family system.

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confidence: 83%

Ego Development in Juvenile Delinquency among Bahraini Youths

Alfulaij¹

2017

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“…Stage 2 (Blasi, 1980;Campagna & Harter, 1975;Gavaghan et al, 1983;Gregg, Gibbs, & Basinger, 1994;Stams et al, 2006;Trevethan & Walker, 1989). In the current study, the men with IDs had no known history of illegal behaviour, but still had less well developed moral reasoning abilities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, many recognition instruments do not measure the developmentally younger stages of moral reasoning (Rest, 1979;Rest, Narvaez, Thoma, & Bebeau, 1999) and their validity is questionable, because in contrast to production instruments, they often do not discriminate reliably between offender and non-offender participants. (Basinger & Gibbs, 1987;Gavaghan, Arnold, & Gibbs, 1983;Gibbs et al, 1984;Stams et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Corrigendum to “The psychometric properties of the Socio-Moral Reflection Measure – Short Form and the Moral Theme Inventory for men with and without intellectual disabilities” [Res. Dev. Disabil. 31 (6) (2010) 1204–1215]

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Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Drawing conclusions from the literature regarding the moral development of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) is difficult because of the use of unstandardised and idiosyncratic measures. In order to address this short-coming, a moral reasoning production measure (the Sociomoral Reflection Measure-Short Form; SRM-SF) and a recognition measure (the Moral Theme Inventory; MTI) were presented to men with and without IDs who had no known history of engaging in illegal behaviour. The instruments were completed on two occasions, separated by a two week interval, in order to investigate their basic psychometric properties. The results indicated that there was a strong relationship between the MTI and the SRM-SF, suggesting that the MTI has convergent validity. The internal consistency of the MTI and the SRM-SF ranged from moderate to substantial for both men with and without IDs. However, the test-retest reliability of the MTI was poor for men with IDs, while it was good for men without IDs.The test-retest reliability of the SRM-SF was good for both men with and without IDs.Comparison of the moral reasoning abilities of men with and without IDs suggested that many of the differences between the two groups could be accounted for by general intellectual functioning. The exception was overall score on the SRM-SF and moral reasoning in relation to the law, where men with IDs scored at stage 2(1), when intelligence was controlled. The results were interpreted by suggesting that the relationship between moral reasoning and illegal behaviour may take an inverted U curve shape, moderated by intelligence.

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“…Since Blasi' s review, several empirical studies (Gavaghan et al, 1983;Chandler & Moran, 1990;Gregg et al, 1994) and meta-analyses (Nelson et al, 1990;Smetana, 1990) have con® rmed this ® nding. According to Smetana (1990) the results of studies utilising the interview method, as well as the objective questionnaire method, derived from Kohlberg' s theory, are ª overwhelmingly supportiveº of the hypothesised relationship between moral competence and delinquency.…”

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confidence: 93%

Moral Judgement and Delinquency in Homeless Youth

Tavecchio¹

1999

Journal of Moral Education

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Moral Judgment in Delinquents and Nondelinquents: RecognitionVersusProduction Measures

Cited by 40 publications

References 16 publications

Ego Development in Juvenile Delinquency among Bahraini Youths

Ego Development in Juvenile Delinquency among Bahraini Youths

Corrigendum to “The psychometric properties of the Socio-Moral Reflection Measure – Short Form and the Moral Theme Inventory for men with and without intellectual disabilities” [Res. Dev. Disabil. 31 (6) (2010) 1204–1215]

Moral Judgement and Delinquency in Homeless Youth

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