Hao Jian, Wu Chunsha
Capital Normal University.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2019 Apr 1;24(2):95-103. doi: 10.1093/deafed/eny047.
The present study examined deaf children's moral development with experimental tasks. Experiment 1 investigated lying and sharing behavior in 37 six- to 11-year-old deaf children, 39 age-matched hearing children and 33 twelve- to 16-year-old deaf adolescents who were matched with the hearing children on vocabulary ability. The results showed that the deaf children did not lie more but shared less than the hearing children. The deaf adolescents' sharing behavior was similar to the hearing children. Experiment 2 further investigated moral reasoning and emotion attribution among 20 deaf children and 30 age-matched hearing children. The results showed that the deaf children did not lag behind the hearing children in moral reasoning but did so with regard to attributing emotions to themselves in moral contexts. Therefore, the present study indicates that moral cognition might be sufficient for deaf children to avoid rule-breaking behavior but insufficient for them to show prosocial behavior.
本研究通过实验任务考察了聋童的道德发展。实验1调查了37名6至11岁的聋童、39名年龄匹配的听力正常儿童以及33名12至16岁且词汇能力与听力正常儿童相匹配的聋青少年的说谎和分享行为。结果表明，聋童说谎并不比听力正常儿童多，但分享行为比听力正常儿童少。聋青少年的分享行为与听力正常儿童相似。实验2进一步调查了20名聋童和30名年龄匹配的听力正常儿童的道德推理和情绪归因。结果表明，聋童在道德推理方面并不落后于听力正常儿童，但在道德情境中对自身情绪的归因方面则落后于听力正常儿童。因此，本研究表明，道德认知可能足以使聋童避免违规行为，但不足以使他们表现出亲社会行为。
