Relationships between Maturity of Moral Judgment and Measures of Cognitive Abilities
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 33 (3) , 945-946
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1973.33.3.945
Abstract
Consistent with Kohlberg's stage theory, maturity of moral judgment was related to process or structural aspects of cognitive functioning, e.g., reasoning and analysis, but not to content, e.g., interests and Rotter's scale.Keywords
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