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Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology

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The Development of Attribution in Social Cognition(I) : An Attribution Analysis of Morality Development

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
1988, v.4 no.1, pp.353-369
Dong-Gi Kim (Kangnam Social Welfare College)
Kim, D. (1988). The Development of Attribution in Social Cognition(I) : An Attribution Analysis of Morality Development. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 4(1), 353-369.

Abstract

The present study was intended to analyse developmental characteristics in attribution on moral persons and behaviors. The study was aim at examining qualitative characteristics in the attributional schemas according to Piagetian-Kohlbergian moral development models by analysing qualitatively attributional characteristics of interpretational responses to moral behavior settings given as stimulus scenarios. The stimulus scenarios describing four elementary moral behariors(honesty, orderliness, responsibility, courtesy) and four altruistic behaviors(assistance, charity, helping, sharing) were presented to the total of all subjects in the ages between 5 and 17. The result and their interpretations are synoptically described below. Attributional schemas on moral behaviors tended to reveal consistency in terms of schematic quality across the areas of moral and altruistic behavior in each group, but also to manifest developmental changes with the increase of age. A quantitative analysis of attributional responses also coincide with the above results of qualitive analysis that the age of 10 is the transformational period in attributional development. The analysis of attributional responses by applying Piagetian scheme of morality development generally supported the Piagetian model in terms of moral development sequence. The comparison of Kohlberg's model and the present data showed consistency in the ages of preconventional and conventional levels in moral development.

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