Comparing the Effectiveness of Training Kohlbergâs Hypothetical Dilemmas, Training the Real Life Dilemmas, and Training Positive Emotion Induction on Moral Decision Making
Subject Areas : Educationalتوران علیزاده 1 , شعله امیری 2 , محمد طاهر نشاط دوست 3 , هوشنگ طالبی 4
1 - دانشجوی دکتری روان شناسی تربیتی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه فرهنگیان پردیس کوثر یاسوج، ایران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان، ایران
3 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان، ایران
4 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان، ایران
Keywords: positive emotion induction, real life dilemmas, Kohlberg’s dilemmas, first grade female high school students, moral decision making,
Abstract :
The aim of the research was to study the effectiveness of training Kohlberg’s dilemmas procedures, real life dilemmas, and positive emotion induction on moral decision making. This was a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental study with control group. The sample consisted of 120. female students selected via multistep cluster sampling method, who were randomly, assigned into four groups. The experimental groups received Kohlberg’s dilemmas and real life dilemmas during 8 sessions, 70 minutes each, one group was induced by positive emotion and the control group was left untreated. All the participants completed the daily moral decision making task (Starke et.l, 2011) as the pre-test, post-test and the follow up. Adopting MANCOVA and ANCOVA for data analysis, the findings showed that, training groups and induction positive emotion were effective in moral decision making (P < 0.05). The follow up L.S.D test showed that although all intervention methods were effective in moral decision making (P=0.01), none of the interventions had significant difference with each other.
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