The major approaches on morality, as the ability of moral judgement, include psychol-analytic, behavioralist, and cognition-developmental perspectives. While Piaget compared heteronomous morality with autonomous morality in his discussion of the devel...
The major approaches on morality, as the ability of moral judgement, include psychol-analytic, behavioralist, and cognition-developmental perspectives. While Piaget compared heteronomous morality with autonomous morality in his discussion of the developmental stages of morality, Kohlberg devided the stages into three levels and six stages. His three levels include preconventional, conventional, and postconventional levels.
For the difference of morality, age is an important variable. Orphan asylum students have, in general, lower morality than general students. While the studies on the gender effect in general population did not produce consistent results, our study on a sample of orphan asylum students shows that female students have higher morality than male students if their age is same. According to Kohlberg, even though cultural differences do not influence the sequence of moral development, cultural differences and the degree of modernization influence the contents of the last stage of moral development or reasoning. Intellectual and social stimuli also influence the development of morality very much and some adults may not achieve the last stage of moral development.
In the relationship between environment and the development of morality, family, peer, social, cultural, and economic environments are the important variables to influence the development of morality. Especially, asylum environment has negative effects on the development of morality for children.
It is well know that many studies show a high correlationship between environment and moral development. Hower, there is lack of studies about childern and the youth in asylum environment in Korea. Since asylum environment has very serious effects on the development of morality, there should be more attention to the effects of asylum environment on moral development. The studies on the effects of asylum environment can help children and the youth in asylum environment achieve a more positive selp-concept and the ability to develop better moral judgement.