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Lavarias, Romeo Balagtas. "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL BASED ON THE DEFINING ISSUES TEST." NSUWorks, 2013. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/58.

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Utilizing Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive moral development theory as the guiding theory, the research undertaken sought to explore the moral decision-making process of emergency planners in the state of Florida. To assess the quantitative measurement for moral judgment, the research applied and used the Defining Issues Test (DIT) developed by James Rest (1979). The research examined the relationship between education, gender, age, and ethics training against the moral maturity of Florida emergency planners. With ethical maturity level as the dependent variable, analysis showed a significant dif
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Winder, Daniel R. "Macromorality and Mormons: A Psychometric Investigation and Qualitative Evaluation of the Defining Issues Test-2." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/448.

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In 1988, P. Scott Richard's dissertation research at the University of Minnesota asserted that the Defining Issues Test (DIT), a widely accepted paper-and-pencil test of moral reasoning, exhibited item bias against religiously orthodox persons. Since 1988 (when Richard's data were reported), new methods of differential-item functioning (DIF) have developed, a new DIT has emerged (the DIT-2), as well as a Neo-Kohlbergian framework based upon moral schemas derived from Kohlberg's Piagetian-like six stages. With new methods, new tests, and unanswered questions, this study's results imply: (1) tha
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Gendron, David. "Better Differentiation of Kohlberg's Stage 6 Using a Modified Form of Rest's Defining Issues Test." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2380.

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The present research attempted to modify Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT) in order to better differentiate stage 6 moral reasoners from stage 5 reasoners. A review of the literature showed that the DIT seems to be both reliable and valid, yet it is unable to clearly differentiate between the stages of principled moral reasoning. After three pilot tests, newly developed stage 6 items were added to the DIT. The revised DIT was then administered to people believed to be stage 6 reasoners. Of the 30 respondents, three made the stage 6 cutoff. No stage 6 items were shown to clearly differentiate b
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Campbell, William Clarence. "A STUDY OF THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE TAX ADMINISTRATION OF KOSOVO BASED ON THE DEFINING ISSUES TEST." NSUWorks, 2009. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/16.

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The population of Kosovo had suffered years of abuse, ethnic cleansing, turmoil, human atrocities, and constant conflict--the results of which plunged Kosovo into costly war. Following the war, Kosovo was placed under the protection of the United Nations in 1999. Kosovo received many years of support and developmental assistance from the international community. Kosovo became a sovereign nation in February 2008. Kosovo's government immediately recognized the importance of serving the needs of the people with responsibility and integrity. There is no institution more important to the successful
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Sullivan, Ethan. "Can ethics be taught? A quasi-experimental study of the impact of class size on the cognitive moral reasoning of freshmen business students." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1840.

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Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold<br>The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a business ethics course on the cognitive moral reasoning of freshmen business students. The sample consisted of 268 college students enrolled in a required business ethics course. The students took Rest's Defining Issues Test - Version 2 (DIT2) as a pre-test and then post-test (upon completing the course). Descriptive analyses, t-tests, ANOVA, and multiple regression were employed to compare the pre-test and post-test scores of the students and to determine the relationship, if any, between the variables
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Marx, Benjamin Robert. "Understanding The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning And Liberalism-Conservatism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/643.

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This thesis aims to clarify the nature of the relationship between moral reasoning, as per the neo-Kohlbergian DIT approach of Rest and his colleagues, and liberalism-conservatism. Moral reasoning and liberalism-conservatism are consistently found to be related but the resultant interpretation that liberals are more moral-cognitively advanced than conservatives has been challenged by Emler and his colleagues who argue that the DIT is liberally biased. Subsequent research on this issue has produced a methodological quagmire that this thesis aims to proceed beyond. The specific aim of thi
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Marx, Benjamin Robert. "Understanding The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning And Liberalism-Conservatism." University of Sydney. Psychology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/643.

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This thesis aims to clarify the nature of the relationship between moral reasoning, as per the neo-Kohlbergian DIT approach of Rest and his colleagues, and liberalism-conservatism. Moral reasoning and liberalism-conservatism are consistently found to be related but the resultant interpretation that liberals are more moral-cognitively advanced than conservatives has been challenged by Emler and his colleagues who argue that the DIT is liberally biased. Subsequent research on this issue has produced a methodological quagmire that this thesis aims to proceed beyond. The specific aim of thi
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Tsitinidis, Alexandros, and Faiza Khan. "Förmågan till etiskt resonemang hos svenska auktoriserade revisorer : Tillämpning av Defining Issues Test ." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2505.

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The aim of this paper is to examine the capacity for ethical reasoning of Swedish certi-fied auditors in the five largest accounting firms in Stockholm, and also how ethics courses affect the auditors' ability to ethically statement. To calculate the auditors ability to ethical statement, questionnaire has been used. The questionnaire is based on a psychological instrument, the so-called Defining Issues Test. At the beginning of the questionnaire some questions are asked about the ethics courses. From the questionnaire a calculation was made of an average index called p-score (Principled score
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Schneider, Heather B. "The Relationship of Compensation Plans to the Moral Cognizance of the Healthcare Executive." NSUWorks, 2012. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/103.

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The primary purpose of this research was to review the relationship between moral cognizance, as defined by the Defining Issues Test, and the compensation plan of a healthcare executive when factors such as licensure, career stage, gender, age, and ethics training were present. The study was conducted on 142 healthcare executives from both a publically traded for-profit hospital corporation and a multi-physician private practice. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were utilized to test the hypotheses of these moderating variables. The outcome of this study indicates that there is no difference
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Hines, Natalie. "COGNITIVE MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ELECTED MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND APPOINTED CITY MANAGERS USING THE DEFINING ISSUES TEST." NSUWorks, 2011. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/43.

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Several significant breaches of ethics in the past few years have created renewed interest in the study of moral judgment. The examples used in this study include sub-prime lending, the Madoff investment scandal, and the torture of suspects in U.S. custody. The Cognitive Moral Development (CMD) theory was developed by Lawrence Kohlberg in 1969. Effectively, Kohlberg determined there were clearly defined stages of moral development in children--how they develop a sense of right, wrong, and justice. He expanded his research to adults and determined that human beings progressed through each of th
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Wang, Jie. "Moral Judgment and Digital Piracy: Predicting Attitudes, Intention, and Behavior Regarding Digital Piracy Using a Modified Version of the Defining Issues Test." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822761/.

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Digital piracy, the illegal copying or downloading of copyrighted digital products without approval from the copyright holders, has brought great economic loss to the software and digital media industries. Previous studies using moral developmental theory have not found consistent relationships between moral judgment and attitudes towards digital piracy. While some researchers have developed individual test items to assess relationships between moral judgment and attitudes toward digital piracy, others have relied on the Defining Issues Test (DIT). However, in that the DIT represents a gene
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Janvary, Antonia Cladianos. "The relationship between teachers' attitudes toward aspects of No Child Left Behind and moral reasoning as measured by the defining issues test." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3355586.

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Reischl, James Nicholas. "TOWARD A THEORY OF MORALITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF COGNITIVE MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN MARKET CHANNEL DYADS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY USING THE DEFINING ISSUES TEST." NSUWorks, 2009. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/97.

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This dissertation tackles the ageless human debate of the body versus the soul. Based on Kohlbergian theory, the multidisciplinary literature review advances the proposition that moral development proceeds in waves of referential egoism leading to nonreferential altruism that is couched in power--the apple of the eye. Many inter organizational studies using the Defining Issues Test have compared moral maturity levels coming from various academic backgrounds. Previous studies have purported that education is the chief moderating variable for moral maturity, with little regard for paradigmatic b
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Moreira, Pollyana de Lucena. "Uma análise do julgamento moral em jovens adultos dos anos de 1988/1989 e 2011 e em adolescentes dos anos de 1996 e 2011." Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6944.

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Creel, Laura Haley Stadler Holly A. "The affective experience of moral decision making." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Spring/doctoral/CREEL_LAURA_21.pdf.

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Sabin, Bruce. "A FAITH-BASED PROGRAM EVALUATION: MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF SEMINARY STUDENTS AT THE LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2352.

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The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct an outcomes-based program evaluation for the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The study included one primary research question, with two subquestions. The primary research question asked to what extent students in the program developed moral judgment consistent with program goals of rehabilitating students and preparing them for effective ministry. The first subquestion asked whether statistically significant differences existed in the moral reasoning of students of different class year
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Strenth, Robert. "The Moral Reasoning and Moral Decision Making of Urban High-Poverty Elementary School Principals in a Large Urban Southeastern School District." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5872.

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The focus of this research was to identify the moral reasoning and moral judgment of elementary school principals who serve in high-poverty schools. The study was undertaken at the request of the client public school district who was attempting to identify characteristics of current elementary principals serving in high-poverty schools. Two research questions guided this study concerning the moral operational level of the principals. The theoretical framework of the study was based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development. Participating principals were administe
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Kalinoski, Zachary Thomas. "Recognizing the Implicit and Explicit Aspects of Ethical Decision-Making: Schemas, Work Climates, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1339789100.

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Ling, Trent. "An Examination of School Principals' Moral Reasoning and Decision-Making along the Principalship Track and across Years of Experience." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6307.

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Previous research by Vitton & Wasonga (2009) and Strenth (2013) found public school K-12 principals struggling in the moral reasoning and decision-making measures of the second Defining Issues Test ("DIT-2"). In response to these studies, this research sought to collect, to examine, and to compare DIT-2 data for educational leaders at various stages of the principalship track in an effort to determine and/or to isolate the locus of principals' reported underperformance. The moral reasoning and decision-making of regular-education K-12 public school principals and assistant principals in Flor
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Sung, Wei-Li, and 宋唯立. "A study of factors influencing the moral judgment of elementary school teacher and Neo-Kohlbergian “Defining Issues Test”." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62299689666854724619.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>教育學系<br>104<br>The main purpose of this study is to explore influencing factors between elementary school teacher and moral judgment. First it illustrates the differences and similarities between Neo-Kohlbergian approach and Kohlberg’s theory. Second, it uses the DIT(Defining Issues Test，DIT) to measure the P scores (principled morality score ) of elementary school teacher. Finally, it analyzes significant test between elementary school teacher P scores and background (Educational Status,Gender and moral studies course ). This study mainly uses document analysis and concept a
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Hestenes, Mark Erling 1949. "Pastoral counsellors' value systems and moral judgement development : a practical theological study." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16942.

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Recent literature by several eminent psychotherapists ·such as Bergin and Beutler argues that counsellors' personal values are probably the greatest influence on the success and outcome of therapy and that the counsellor tends to convert the client to the counsellor's values. This literature provided strong support for this researcher's contention of the need for similar studies in pastoral counselling. The researcher was particularly concerned about the role of pastoral counsellors' value systems and moral judgement development in counselling situations. The researcher selected the R
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