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The Exploratory Study for Establishing the Moral Behavior Developmental Tasks of Korean People

  • 인문논총
  • 2011, 27(), pp.53-89
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Kyunghee Yoon 1

1경남대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The present study aims to establish the moral behavior developmental tasks of Korean people of different age levels and thereby to provide teachers, parents, and researchers with tentative guideline as regards moral behavior developmental tasks of Korean people. 136 subjects paricipated in preliminary study and 211 subjects participated in the main study. Through the preliminary study, the important moral behavior developmental tasks were itemized for each developmental stage. The questionnaire used in the main study consisted of the items clarified in the preliminary study. The items were arranged in the 5point Likert-type questions. The main findings of this study were as follows: 1)The contents of the morality tasks were different according to the age groups; 2)Almost tasks continued on several subsequent age stages; 3) The contents of the morality tasks were sensitive to the socio-cultural backdrop and times in result of a comparison with Havighurst‘s(1952) and Kim, et al‘s(1987) studies.

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