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| Altruistic moral judgment among older adults | | Author(s) | Elizabeth Midlarsky, Eva Kahana, Robin Corley |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 49, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 27-41 |
| Keywords | Social ethics ; Integration ; Attitude ; Personality ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study investigated altruistic moral judgement among older people, and examined its relationship to demographic and personality variables, self-reported helping, and subjective social integration. The moral judgement interview included three stories, each of which contained a moral dilemma. Participants solved each dilemma and gave reasons for their solutions. The moral dilemmas and scoring system emphasised the positive, prosocial aspects of morality, rather than a prohibition-oriented approach. The categories used most often were, in descending order of frequency, pragmatic needs-of-others oriented reasons; empathy-based reasons; reasons based on internalised and/or abstract moral principles; and hedonistic reasons. Of the higher levels of moral judgement, only reasoning based on abstract internalised principles had significant positive relationships with self-reported helping, the personality correlates with helping, and with subjective social integration. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000419408 A |
| Classmark | TQ: TO: DP: DK: 7T |
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