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INFLUENCES ON MORAL REASONING - Coggle Diagram
INFLUENCES ON MORAL REASONING
Peer interaction
Interaction is a reciprocal relationship between two or more people that
each individual plays actively in the play group.
Adolescents who report more close friendships and who more often participate in conversations with their friends are advanced in moral reasoning
Cross race friendships and interactions in schools and communities—reduces racial and ethnic prejudice.
Understanding moral development is important in this stage where individuals make so many important decisions and gain more and more legal responsibility.
Peer pressure can exert a powerful influence because friends play a more significant role in teens’ lives.
By late adolescence, most teens are less rebellious as they have begun to establish their own identity, their own belief system, and their own place in the world.
Peer discussions- improve high school and college students' moral understanding
Child- rearing practices
Children and adolescents gain moral understanding if they have parents who engage in moral discussions, encourage prosocial behavior, insist that others be treated respectfully and fairly, and create a supportive atmosphere by listening sensitively,
Mature moral reasoning combine warmth, exchange of ideas, and appropriate demands for maturity.
Parents lecture, use threats, or make sarcastic remarks, children show little or no change in moral reasoning over time.
Culture
Individuals in industrialized nations move through Kohlberg’s stages more rapidly
and advance to a higher level than individuals in village societies
Cultures where young people participate in the institutions of
their society at early ages, moral reasoning is advanced.
In research conducted in India, even highly educated people viewed solutions to moral dilemmas as the responsibility of the entire society, not of a single person
School
Moral reasoning advances in late adolescence and early adulthood only as long as a person remains in school
Higher education introduces young people to social issues that extend beyond personal relationships to entire political and cultural groups.
Taking opportunities and who indicate that they have become more aware of social diversity tend to be advanced in moral reasoning.