The effect of moral reasoning and values as the mediator towards student’s prosocial behaviour

This study examined the relations between child rearing, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behaviour. The sample consisted of 125 children (6-11 years of age) and both their parents. Child-rearing behaviour was assessed by both observations at home and interviews with the parents; prosocial moral reasoning by interviews with the children, and prosocial behaviour by questionnaires filled in by their teachers and classmates. Positive relations were found between prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviour, but only for the youngest children. Children growing up in a supportive, authoritative, and less restrictive environment behaved more prosocially and reasoned at a higher level about prosocial moral issues.

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Effect of Religiosity and Moral Identity Internalization on Prosocial Behaviour

Journal of Human Values ◽

10.1177/0971685820901402 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 186-198

Author(s):

Sukhamjit Kaur

Keyword(s):

Moral Reasoning ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Perspective Taking ◽

Personality Assessment ◽

Moral Identity ◽

Empathic Concern ◽

Prosocial Behaviour ◽

Socially Responsible ◽

High Level ◽

Age Range

The main aim of the present research was to study the religiosity and moral identity internalization as effective variables of prosocial behaviour. Sample consisted of 400 emerging adults (females) in the age range of 18–24. All participants completed questionnaire measures, namely religiosity scale (Bhushan, 1970), moral identity inventory (Aquino & Reed, 2002, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1423–1440) and prosocial personality battery (Penner, Fritzsche, Craiger & Friefeld, 1995, Advances in Personality Assessment (vol. 10, pp. 147–184). Hillsdale, NJ: Lea). The data were subjected to 2 × 2 analysis of variance. The results of ANOVA clearly revealed that highly religious people are more responsible socially, exhibit higher empathic concern, are more able to take others perspective, have higher prosocial moral reasoning capabilities, are more helpful, altruistic and demonstrate a high level of other oriented empathy. High moral identity internalization leads to socially responsible behaviour, along with higher empathic concern and perspective-taking abilities. Individuals with high level of moral identity were found capable to use prosocial moral reasoning, and they also exhibited higher levels of other oriented empathy. Religiosity and moral identity internalization interacted with each other to produce a combined effect on mutual concern moral reasoning.

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Gender Differences in Prosocial Behaviour

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0304.017 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Isah Aliyu Abdullahi ◽

Dr. Pardeep Kumar

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Moral Reasoning ◽

Perspective Taking ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Self Report ◽

Prosocial Behaviour ◽

Probability Level ◽

Personal Distress ◽

Five Dimensions ◽

Males And Females

The objective of current research was to examine the gender differences in prosocial behaviour. Total 60 students (N = 60, 30 Males and 30 Females) participated in the current study from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. The Prosocial Personality Battery (PSB) consisting seven dimensions including social responsibility (SR), emphatic concern (EC), perspective taking (PT), personal distress (PD), other oriented moral reasoning (O), mutual concern moral reasoning (M) and self report altruism (SRA) has been used in the study to collect the data. The results revealed significant gender differences on two dimensions of prosocial personality battery, i.e. perspective taking (t = 2.04, p <.05) and other oriented moral reasoning (t = 2.01, p <.05), being females on the higher side. On rest of the five dimensions the differences were negligible falling far away from the probability level of .05. The results suggest that males and females are both almost equal on most of the prosocial behaviour dimensions. However, in case of perspective taking and mutual concern moral reasoning females are on higher side suggesting that they have better understanding of others’ mental state and they are more concerned about morality in the society.

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Moral reasoning is the process of asking moral questions and answering them

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18002534 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Alfano

Keyword(s):

Moral Reasoning ◽

Dependent Process ◽

Asking Questions ◽

Path Dependent ◽

Path Dependent Process ◽

Moral Questions

Abstract Reasoning is the iterative, path-dependent process of asking questions and answering them. Moral reasoning is a species of such reasoning, so it is a matter of asking and answering moral questions, which requires both creativity and curiosity. As such, interventions and practices that help people ask more and better moral questions promise to improve moral reasoning.

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