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Relationship between Moral Judgment Development and Political Attitude
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- Issue Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 교육종합연구원
- Citation
- SNU Journal of Education Research, Vol.14, pp. 171-200
- Description
- 2005
- Abstract
- The purposes of this study were to examine the
emotional/political reactions to the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001 in the USA and to look at the
relationship among moral judgment development, attitude
toward to human right and political reactions to terrorist
attacks. The current study's results demonstrated that
with respect to emotional responses to terrorist attacks,
'angry' and 'sad' appear at the same frequency while the
least emotional response is 'confused'. Females report
sadness more than males while males report anger more
than females in a certain situation. With respect to
political action choices to terrorist attack, males tend to
consider a retaliatory response when they make political
decision while females tend to consider more considerable
ways in which we can overcome terrorist situation.
Students who get higher moral judgment scores are less
likely to insist that "we must fight back" while students
who get lower moral judgment scores are less likely to
insist that "we should not make hasty decisions." However
it is not a significant difference, so we need to have more
data and should explore in detail this relationship.
In addition, people who have higher scores on attitude on human rights are more likely to consider innocent
people's lives when they make political decisions. People
who are more considering human rights tend to disagree
with action choice 3 "we must fight back." Because the
survey was administered to dentistry students in January
2002, their emotional responses and their political action
choices could be different from what they thought right
after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Finally
generalizability issue of the current study is discussed.
- ISSN
- 1225-5335
- Language
- English
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