Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to examine moral emotions between conduct disordered adolescents and normal adolescents, and 2) to assess the attributions about moral emotions. 3) types of socio-moral transgression events were used to 30 conduct disordered, and 30 comparison adolescents. The data were analyzed through chi-squares to examine conduct disordered and normal adolescets' moral emotions and moral attributions. The results showed significant differences between conduct disordered-, and normal adolescents in moral emotions and moral attributions. Conduct disordered adolescents expected victimizers would feel happier and less guilty following acts of victimization(physical harmness, theft, and lying) than comparison adolescents, while normal adolescents showed that victims would feel less upset and less angry than conduct disordered adolescents. Also conduct disordered adolescents showed outcome-dependent attributions such as material gains, but normal adolescents showed moral attributions or causal-dependent attributions such as fairness and justice. Future researches on moral emotions, especially in the field of developmental psychopathology and prevention, were suggested.