Adolescent Moral Development Research Articles

The Role of Parents in Preventing Deviant Behavior (Case Study of Adolescents Aged 13-18 Years in Setu Wetan Village, Weru District, Cirebon Regency)

This research is motivated by the fact that there are still gaps in adolescent moral development. Some parents are still not optimal in educating adolescents, so some teenagers do not have morals well, or often there is deviant behavior of adolescents. This study aims to obtain data on the role of parents in adolescent moral development, deviant behavior of adolescents aged 13-18 years, and the relationship between the role of parents to moral development in preventing deviant behavior of adolescents aged 13-18 years in Setu Wetan Village, Weru District, Cirebon Regency. This research method uses quantitative research. Data collection techniques use observation, questionnaires, and documentation. Data analysis techniques use quantitative descriptive analysis. The results of this study, the Role of Parents in Adolescent Moral Development, is included in the Good Category with a score of 89.6%. Deviant Behavior of Adolescents Aged 13-18 years is included in the Good Category with a score of 84%. There is a positive and significant relationship between the Role of Parents in Adolescent Moral Development in preventing Deviant Behavior of Adolescents Aged 13-18 in Setu Wetan Village Weru Subdistrict, Cirebon Regency, the relationship is 1.69%, and other factors influence the remaining 98.31%.

The Impact of Parents on Adolescent Moral Development

Development of moral reasoning and the family factors affecting adolescent moral development had been a research focus for a long time. Levels of moral reasoning increase with age, and is correlated to social interactions, and some extent is determined by the ability of internalizing moral values of the surroundings and moral authorities. A good family cohesion (close bond within the family), flexible family adaptability and effective communication styles towards moral issues is undoubtedly correlated to higher levels of adolescent moral reasoning as they open the individuals susceptible to well-accepted social norms and social rules which then shape the moral reasoning. The mother's and father’s roles in child development are not quite the same; the father’s use of transactive dialogue and comparing, and the mother’s being sensitive to the child’s moral views are more predictive of better development. However, the gender difference in parents as a factor was less researched in the past, which needs to be explored in future studies. This paper provides a general review and existing discussions on family influence on adolescence moral development.

The development and validation of a measure of moral intuition salience for children and adolescents: The Moral Intuitions and Development Scale

AbstractIn this article, we create and validate a measure of moral intuition salience developmentally appropriate for use among children and adolescents. This measure allows researchers to apply moral foundations theory and the model of intuitive morality and exemplars to child and adolescent moral development and media use, an important addition to the literature, as to date, this theory and its measurement have generally only been used among college-aged and adult participants. Following five pilot tests (total N = 713) that demonstrated face, concurrent, and predictive validity of our measure among young adults, we present validation data from 8- to 17-year-olds (N = 577), demonstrating the developmental nature of these moral intuitions and linking them with media use. This measure can be used to understand how children’s moral intuition salience relates to their media and content choices, as well as how media relates to the moral intuitions most salient to the child.

Moral Development in Adolescence.

This article provides a selective review of research on moral development in adolescence during the past decade. We begin with introducing key concepts and reviewing critical theoretical advances in the field of adolescent moral development. This includes integrative models to the developmental study of morality and dynamic socialization models of moral development. Next, related major empirical findings are presented on moral emotion-behavior links, morality in intergroup contexts, and the socialization of moral development. Next, methodological innovations are presented, including new techniques to assess and analyze moral emotions and moral behaviors. We conclude by pointing to promising future directions for moral development research and practices aimed at promoting ethical growth and civic responsibility in adolescents around the globe.

Teaching the comic Yummy to engage adolescent empathy, critical reflection, and community awareness

ABSTRACT For researchers interested in how pedagogy within schools can be used as a catalyst for adolescent moral development, investigating practitioner-based studies of classroom practices that support the growth of prosocial behaviors is crucial. This paper delineates a qualitative study conducted in an ethnically diverse high school language arts classroom where texts were being utilized to promote moral development across multiple domains. Authors describe how the critical reading and discussion of the comic Yummy led students to express emotional responses to the text centered in feelings of empathy, gratitude, and community awareness. Findings suggest that these specific emotional reactions demonstrate potential for critical, social consciousness and the development of empathic and prosocial behaviors. Fundamentally, this paper seeks to enrich scholarship in the field of adolescent moral development by arguing that pedagogy within schools can be utilized to promote emotions and cognitions that lead to community action.

Catholic education at the coalface of a kaleidoscope of identities

ABSTRACT Globalisation, migration, socio-political shifts, and access to the internet are increasing the religious and belief diversity of Irish society. This flux presents challenges for young people who are endeavouring to establish a secure identity. The focus of this research was to understand how the identity development of post-primary students of minority faith or worldview, is impacted by attending a school with a Catholic ethos. The research methodology was qualitative. To provide an opportunity for students to voice their experiences, 18 post-primary students of minority faith or worldview were interviewed. Thematic analysis was used to identify the findings. Reflecting on an interpretivist paradigm, the epistemology which underpinned this research was constructivism. While theories of adolescent moral and identity development alongside theories of othering, conformity, and agency supported the research study. The findings report some students struggled to find a secure identity due to conflicting societal, school, peer, and family beliefs. Perceived negative stereotyping of their beliefs created feelings of otherness with implications for students’ self-esteem. Students’ sense of belonging and well-being was impacted on by Catholic-centric school practices combined with current provision to ‘opt-out’ from Religious Education classes. However, the research also found human agency resulted in a kaleidoscope of student responses to the inherent challenges of adolescent identity development.

STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI REMAJA MASJID SYUHADA DALAM MELAKUKAN PEMBINAAN AKHLAK REMAJA DI DUSUN MENSEMAT DESA MEKAR JAYA TAHUN 2020

Islamic preaching is an activity of communicating the teachings of Allah Almighty which are contained in the Al-Quran and Sunnah, so that people can take it as their way of life. Given the many problems that occur among adolescents, ranging from moral and moral crises. To overcome this problem, of course there is a training that is carried out. In the process of coaching adolescents, special abilities are needed. One of them is the communication strategy carried out in the youth coaching process. The purpose of this study in general is to find out the communication strategies of the Syuhada mosque youth in conducting adolescent morals development in the Mensemat Hamlet, Mekar Jaya Village. Whereas specifically, knowing the communication planning and communication management carried out by the teenagers of the Syuhada mosque in developing youth morals in the Dusun Mensemat, Mekar Jaya Village, and knowing the supporting and inhibiting factors for the success of the Syuhada mosque youth communication strategy in developing youth morals in the Mensemat Village Mekar Jaya Village. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research. In this study, the data consisted of primary and secondary data. The data collection techniques are observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The data analysis technique used was data reduction, data presentation, verification and conclusion drawing. After being analyzed, the validity of the data is tested by mamber check, and triangulation. The conclusions of the results of the research ari: Communication planning carried out by teenagers of the Syuhada mosque in adolescent moral development in Menemat Village, Mekar Jaya Village is in the form of determining activities in adolescent morality development, determining messages to provide guidance, and selecting media in the process of building morals for adolescents, Communication management that is carried out is planning and evaluating the communication strategy undertaken. Supporting factors and obstacles to the success of the Syuhada Mosque youth communication strategy are in the form of external and internal Tractors including adequate facilities and infrastructure, inadequate use of time, adolescents who are difficult to provide guidance, poor signal quality in conveying messages, and parents.

PEMBINAAN AKHLAK REMAJABERBASIS MASJID DI MASJID THAYYIBAHDESA TUMPUK TANGAH KECAMATAN TALAWI

This study aims to find and analyze mosque-based adolescent moral coaching, to find out and analyze the obstacles faced by various parties in mosquebased adolescent moral development, and to find out and analyze solutions that can be done in mosque-based adolescent moral development in Thayyibah Mosque, Talawi District. This research is descriptive qualitative. Informants in the study were mosque administrators, youth mosque leaders, and Stacked Village Heads. Data collection tools are researchers as key instruments and supporting instruments are interview guidelines, observation guidelines, field notes, and recording devices. Data collection techniques are participatory observation, indepth interviews and documentation studies. Data analysis techniques use domain analysis, carry out taxonomy analysis, conduct compential analysis and conduct theme analysis. The results showed that mosque-based adolescent moral coaching at Thayyibah Mosque in Stacked Village is through congregational prayer, majelis ta'lim, social activities, commemoration of Islamic holidays (PHBI), and tadarrus of the Qur'an. While the solution taken in this mosquebased youth moral development is always to hold discussions with the government, religious leaders, traditional leaders, and with the parents of the teenagers themselves, to convey information in the presence of recitation wirid, to form activities that touch directly on youth activities, and provide examples of admirable behavior to teenagers

An Exploratory Study of Modeling as an Educational Tool for Adolescent Moral Development

The problem of immorality among the youth population is of universal consequence. The youth population refers to adolescents, teenagers, young adults and working-class population. Adolescents are still in the formative years and could be positively influenced towards moral uprightness. Consequently, several authors have attempted to uncover factors associated with immorality and the possible interventions among the youth. Some of the proposed interventions include parental instructions, sermonizing, inclusion of moral instructions in the school curriculum, adverts on media networks, punishment for wrong doing, rewards for uprightness and outstanding virtues among others. However, these studies did not consider the use of modeling as an educational tool for curbing immorality among the youth. Although several policies were also formulated to ensure adolescent moral development, however, none of these policies highlighted the importance of modeling; hence the problem has continued to escalate across many developing countries like Nigeria. It is on this note that this review article was conceived. The article utilizes data from secondary sources to: (i) explain the genesis of immorality among teenagers; (ii) deliberate on developmental tasks involving adolescents’ moral development; (iii) discuss factors that engender moral development through modeling; and (iv) illustrate facilitators of modeling with the aims of making plausible clarifications to parents, teachers, religious leaders and policy makers on how to reduce escalation of immorality to the barest minimum in developing societies like Nigeria.

Level Keputusan Moral Remaja Berdasarkan Etnis

This study is designed to describe the rate of multiethnic adolescent moral judgement development in West Borneo. The data analysis used is seeking for score P by summing up scores of stages 5A, 5B, and 6 for either each criteria or totality. This score P may be interpreted as score of subject moral judgment in making a decision, then index score is looked for. Furthermore, the index score is conversed into score T. Highest score T obtained by respondent represent the inclination of moral development level. Adolescent moral decision based on the research findings suggest highest Post Conventional level is native ethnic groups of Madura, whereas lowest Post Conventional level is Chinese ethnics. Conclusion in this study is each ethnic having high collectivism culture is not definite yet at high Post Conventional level.

Pro-Environmental Behavior and Adolescent Moral Development.

Previous research has demonstrated that children take a strong moral stance toward protecting the natural environment. However, the question of how this moralization of pro-environmental behavior develops in adolescence has been rarely investigated. This study investigated age-related differences in adolescents' pro-environmental behavior as it relates to moral judgments about environmental issues and emotions. The study was based on a cross-sectional sample of 325 Canadian adolescents from early, middle, and late adolescence. It was found that older adolescents engaged less in pro-environmental behaviors such as energy conservation and recycling. The effect of age was mediated by the prescriptiveness of moral judgment as well as emotional affinity for nature. The study calls for a systematic investigation of factors that suppress pro-environmentalism in adolescence.

Investigating new Ways to Study Adolescent Moral Competence

To explore adolescent moral development and moral competence it is important to develop an instrument, which would make a moral dilemma content explicit for subjects and assist adolescents to make a proper decision. We suppose that a specially designed movie could be used as a tool for representing a moral dilemma core to develop essential motivation and inclusion of viewers in the presented task, to present a realistic content of the problem situation and to present the context of this situation as a whole, and finally to make explicit the emotional peculiarities of the situation. The new method to assess adolescent moral competence has been tested in few secondary schools of Moscow, Russia in 2002-2004 (participants’ age 13 – 16 y.o., N=250). It has been found that this new method allowed to objectify the content of a moral dilemma much more effectively than a traditional, written manner did and consequently revealed more adequately the level of adolescents’ moral competence.

Computer Hacking: Just Another Case of Juvenile Delinquency?

Abstract: Recent discussions of computer ‘hacking’ make explicit reference to the disproportionate involvement of juveniles in this form of computer crime. While criminal justice, computer security, public and popular reflections on hacking seldom refer to formal criminological analyses of youth offending, they nonetheless offer a range of explanations for the over-representation of young people amongst computer hackers. Such accounts of hacking can be seen to converge with criminological analyses, by stressing a range of causal factors related to gender psychology, adolescent moral development, family dysfunction and peer-group and subcultural association. The homologies between ‘lay’, ‘administrative’, ‘expert’, ‘popular’ and criminological discourses, it is suggested, offer considerable scope for developing a critical, academically-informed, and policy-oriented debate on young people's participation in computer crime.

Moral Development in Adolescence

Themes in the papers in this special issue of the JRA on moral development are identified. We discuss the intersection of moral development research with policy concerns, the distinctive qualities of moral life in adolescence that warrant investigation, the multiple connotations of “moral,” the methods typical of moral development research, and the influences that shape adolescent moral development. Suggestions are made for new methods and new directions in the study of moral development.

Effects of Faith & Church Involvement on African American Female Adolescents

Many studies of African American adolescent females have focused on teenage promiscuity, pregnancy, or substance abuse. Of late, studies in the area of gang participation and drug use among this population have increased. Extensive research has been conducted on antisocial behavior within this and other populations (Elliott & Gresham, 1993; Jessor, Donovan, & Costa, 1991). Although, these topics are of interest both socially and culturally, they represent only a fraction of the African American adolescent female population. This type of showcasing has served only to reinforce stereotypes of African Americans and of African American females in particular.Accurate information is crucial to planning programs for youth. At every level of development, whether it is because of financial, programmatic, or human deficits, there is a tremendous void in studies of the strengths of African American adolescent females. Only when asset-based studies are conducted on diverse youths can communities expect to be prepared to meet their needs. It is critical for youths that community institutions be prepared to welcome the diverse needs of these adolescents. Recognizing strengths and knowing how communities can support them will enhance practice and programmatic outcomes (Ianni, 1996; Stevenson, 1998).The concept of community assets is commonly used in human and community development studies. Even though asset development has been receiving much attention, African American youths, and females in particular, usually have not been the focus of this type of research. Overall, community assets for African American adolescent females can vary in strengths, types, and combinations. Therefore, this study examined the presence of a selected community asset, the church, in the life of African American adolescent females.Review of LiteratureAdolescent Moral DevelopmentMost theorists agree that adolescence is a critical time when youth look for evidence of a moral and just society and practice engaging in activities that hold society accountable for the standards imposed on them. The church may provide a unique context for youth to engage in social experiences that can teach values and encourage them to make moral decisions. Through programs and activities such as church school, Bible studies, youth programs, choirs, dramatics, and spiritual dancing, churches may provide multiple avenues of opportunities for teens to find their voice and develop a moral compass for adulthood.Theories of adolescent moral development describe the development of character, ethics, and moral reasoning from premoral to conventional to principled morality (e.g., Kohlberg, 1970). Each level is influenced both by social, emotional, and intellectual development and by the demands of situational contexts on behavior. Therefore, age is not synonymous with a level or stage. For example, Robert Coles, in his book, How to Raise a Moral Child: The Moral Intelligence of Children presented stories, situations, and dilemmas that children analyzed and to which they assigned moral solutions. The author used the children's choices to explain moral intelligence. He believes that children can learn to be moral. The church is an opportune place to develop this skill.Faith, Spirituality, and ReligionFaith, spirituality, and religion differ on many levels. Faith is described as a belief in something beyond ones self. It is not bound to spiritual understandings but can be applied to any aspect of life. Spirituality has a less concrete expression; it is directly related to a relationship with God and self. Religion, or being a part of a faith community, can offer support among people with similar faith experiences. Attending church and relying on faith have long been mainstays in the African American community (Mattis, 2000). Both faith and the church have been traditional forms of social and familial involvement for African Americans (Hamilton, 1982; Lincoln & Mamiya, 1990; Tate & Brown, 1991). …

Morality and Sexual Issues in Older Adolescent Females

A follow-up study to Carol Gilligan’s work in female adolescent moral development was conducted in the presentation of a hypothetical moral sexual situation to eight older, culturally diverse adolescent females in their first year of college. The naming of a “Good Friend’s” conflict and the personal moral reasoning of the interviewees were audiotaped, transcribed and analyzed using a sequence of four readings as subscribed by Gilligan and her associates. Examples of Justice reasoning, a Care reasoning, and an Integrated moral reasoning are presented along with suggestions for educators and therapists.

Prevent, repent, reform, revenge: A study in adolescent moral development : By Ann C. Diver-Stamnes and R. Murray Thomas Greenwood Press (P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Connecticut 06881-5007), 1995, 240 pp., hardcover—$55.00

Prevent, repent, reform, revenge: A study in adolescent moral development : By Ann C. Diver-Stamnes and R. Murray Thomas Greenwood Press (P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Connecticut 06881-5007), 1995, 240 pp., hardcover—$55.00

Parental Divorce and the Moral Development of Adolescents

To explore the possible association of parental divorce and adolescent's moral development, 103 college students aged 17 to 22 were tested for stage of moral development and parental relations. Students' gender and prior closeness with parents were not significantly associated with variations in their current level of moral development. There was a signif~cant association between parental status of divorce and adolescents' stage of moral development. Subjects whose parents were divorced during their adolescent years exhibited a significantly higher level of moral development than those adolescents whose par- ents were not divorced. The fmdings support the understanding that increased perspective-taking, necessitated among children of divorce by witnessing differences in opinions between their parents, is at the root of moral judgment development.

The Adolescent's Making of Meaning: The Pedagogy of Augustine's Confessions

Abstract Teachers and professors have sometimes used Augustine's Confessions to help their students reflect on their intellectual and ethical development. In this paper, I provide a clear understanding of why students respond to Augustine's life. In short, I interpret Augustine's development as found in the Confessions in the light of the recent work of William G. Perry Jr. on adolescent intellectual and moral development. In their research, Perry and his colleagues found a number of stages that college‐age students (ideally) pass through: from dualism to its modification through ‘multiplicity’, to relativism, and finally to a chosen commitment. I show that Augustine himself went through these positions. He dramatically portrays what goes on in the lives of many adolescents. In this paper, the turning points in Augustine's development are pinpointed, but also provided are practical suggestions for consciously using the Confessions to foster students’ intellectual and ethical development.

Stories Lived and Stories Told: The Narrative Structure of Late Adolescent Moral Development

The ongoing debate about how to describe and explain late adolescent moral development is highlighted most clearly in the contrast between the work of Kohlberg and Perry. This paper addresses this deb