Center for Family Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2300 Eye Street, N. W., 20037, Washington, D.C..
J Youth Adolesc. 1979 Dec;8(4):433-41. doi: 10.1007/BF02088660.
Three samples of college students were tested on Hogan's Survey of Ethical Attitudes (SEA) and Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT), a test of moral reasoning ability in the Kohlbergian tradition. In addition, one of the samples took Collins's revision of Rotter's Internal-External Scale (I-E) while another sample took Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale. There was a small but reliable tendency for subjects who endorsed the "ethics of personal conscience," as measured by the SEA, to show greater maturity in moral reasoning, as assessed by the DIT. This result was seen as raising some interesting questions about the relation between liberalism-conservatism and moral maturity. The subjects who advocated the ethics of social responsibility tended to show more internal locus of control as measured by the I-E scale. There also was a tendency for subjects who preferred the morality of conventional role-conformity, as measured by the DIT, to have high scores on the Self-Monitoring Scale. The correlations between personal conscience and mature moral reasoning, while significant, were small enough to make it seem that people of various social and political attitudes are likely to achieve maturity in moral reasoning.
三组大学生接受了 Hogan 的《道德态度调查》（SEA）和 Rest 的《定义问题测试》（DIT）的测试，这是一种在科尔伯格传统中测试道德推理能力的测试。此外，其中一组样本接受了 Collins 对 Rotter 的《内外向量表》（I-E）的修订版，另一组样本接受了 Snyder 的《自我监控量表》。SEA 测量的“个人良心道德”的支持者在道德推理方面表现出更大的成熟度，这一结果具有一定的可靠性，但这一结果表明，在自由意志主义-保守主义和道德成熟度之间存在一些有趣的问题。I-E 量表衡量的具有社会责任感道德的拥护者往往表现出更强的内部控制力。在 DIT 衡量的传统角色一致性道德方面，偏好者的自我监控量表得分也较高。SEA 中的个人良心与成熟道德推理之间的相关性虽然显著，但相关性很小，这表明具有各种社会和政治态度的人可能会在道德推理方面达到成熟。
