Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
Psicothema. 2018 Aug;30(3):289-294. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2017.378.
Moral reasoning and its association with various types of behavior have been the subject of many studies in Psychology. Specifically, moral reasoning has been widely related to juvenile delinquency in the research about the subject.
this review integrates more than 70 years of scientific research into the differences in moral reasoning between adolescent offenders and non-offenders with a view to elucidating the relationship between moral reasoning and juvenile delinquency with provision for the potential moderating effect of demographic and methodological variables.
We conducted a meta-analytic review whose target population was young offenders between 11 and 20 years old.
A search for literature on the target topic retrieved a total of 72 studies with a moderated effect size (r = -.336). The most salient finding was that effect sizes were significant for all subgroups of moderating variables.
This result suggests a powerful relationship between moral reasoning and officially recorded juvenile delinquency that cannot be exclusively ascribed to sociodemographic or methodological variables. There remain some unsolved challenges in this field, however, which are briefly commented on.
道德推理及其与各种行为类型的关系一直是心理学研究的主题。具体来说，在关于这一主题的研究中，道德推理已被广泛地与青少年犯罪联系起来。
本综述将 70 多年来的科学研究整合到青少年犯罪者与非犯罪者之间的道德推理差异中，旨在阐明道德推理与青少年犯罪之间的关系，并考虑人口统计学和方法学变量的潜在调节作用。
我们进行了一项元分析综述，其目标人群是 11 至 20 岁的青少年罪犯。
对目标主题的文献搜索共检索到 72 项具有调节效应量（r = -.336）的研究。最突出的发现是，对于所有调节变量的亚组，效应大小都是显著的。
这一结果表明，道德推理与官方记录的青少年犯罪之间存在着强有力的关系，这种关系不能仅仅归因于社会人口统计学或方法学变量。然而，该领域仍存在一些悬而未决的挑战，对此我们进行了简要的评论。
