Moral Judgment Maturity of Process and Reactive Schizophrenics

Herron, William G.; Stegen, Richard D.; Poland, Harold V.; Schultz, Candace L.

doi:10.1080/00223980.1983.9915391

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“…The adolescents with schizophrenia were also rated by their teachers as displaying more delinquent behaviour than the controls. Herron, Stegen, Poland, and Schultz (1983) found that premorbid adjustment, block design scores (an index of nonverbal IQ) and vocabulary scores and years of education were the best predictors of moral maturity, assessed using the MJI, in a sample of 40 adult males with schizophrenia. Within this sample, only two participants focused on social systems and conscience, which Kohlberg argued that most healthy adults do.…”

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“…Indeed, higher moral maturity scores on the MJI are related to higher mental age (Campagna & Harter, 1975), verbal intelligence (Harris et al, 1976) and abstract and analytic reasoning (Arbuthnot, 1973), including for people with schizophrenia (Herron et al, 1983). Interestingly, intelligence (IQ) may be more strongly predictive of moral maturity, as assessed using the MJI, for people of below average IQ than for those above average (Kohlberg, 1969).…”

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Moral cognition in schizophrenia

McGuire

Langdon

Brüne

2014

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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Introduction. Disordered moral behaviour and understanding of moral rules were described early in the literature on schizophrenia; however, moral cognition has received scant attention in spite of a large literature focused on social cognitive impairments and violent behaviour in schizophrenia. Methods. We conducted a narrative synthesis of the literature on violence, moral judgement and schizophrenia. Results. Initial empirical research into moral cognition in schizophrenia did not fully account for the basic-and social-cognitive deficits now known to characterise schizophrenia. Importantly, research into moral cognition in autism and psychopathy, disorders in part characterised by social cognitive impairments indicates subtle patterns of difference to the moral cognition of control participants. Recent neuroeconomic studies of moral cognition in schizophrenia have indicated that individuals with schizophrenia display subtle dysfunction in their fairness-related behaviours, but not in their propensity to engage in altruistic punishment. Conclusions. Further research has the potential to broaden our understanding of what is intact and what is impaired in moral cognition in schizophrenia and also to inform our theories of the structures subserving moral judgement in the general population. Furthermore, a more thorough understanding of moral cognitive impairments in schizophrenia may have implications for both legal process and psychosocial rehabilitation.

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Section: Previous Work On Moral Cognition In Schizophreniamentioning

confidence: 96%