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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"defining issues test"”.
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A Study to Determine the Growth in Moral Development of Students Participating in Dexfield High School's 1979-80 Fall Peer Helper Program
… moral development growth as measured by Rest's Defining Issues Test. Students in the peer helper class were matched to a control group from Dexfield High School according to: age, grade in school, IQ, cumulative grade point average, and sex. The peer helper class and the control group were …
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An Exploration of Some Dimensions of the Valuing Behavior of Two Beginning Teachers of Science
… value reasoning as assessed by the Rest (1974), Defining Issues Test (DIT) and the valuing behavior of the teachers.
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Contemporary Pirates: An Examination of the Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Technology, Progression, and Battles that Surround Modern Day Music Piracy in Colleges and Universities.
… an online music file sharing survey, a Defining Issues Test (DIT), and participated in a small focus group. This thesis also outlined the history and progression of online music piracy in the United States, and addressed four research questions which aimed to determine why individuals …
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A comparison of moral reasoning and moral orientation of American and Turkish university students.
… the ages of 18 and 46 are administered the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and the Measure of Moral Orientation (MMO). Statistical analyses indicate Turkish participants reflect more postconventional reasoning, while American participants reflect more conventional reasoning, particularly Stage 4 …
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Public relations ethics: a cross-cultural analysis
… study employed 11 qualitative interviews, the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and a quantitative version of the five-factor TARES test to complete the first cross-cultural analysis of the ethical decision-making patterns of public relations practitioners. The DIT is an instrument based on Kohlberg’s …
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A case for ethical development in co-curricular environments
… learning in ethics courses. The study used the Defining Issues Test (DIT) developed by James Rest (Bebaeu, Rest & Narvaez, 1999), which places individuals in Kohlberg's continuum of ethical reasoning. One hundred eighty-two studentsparticipated in the DIT pretest at the beginning of the semester …
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Exploring Predictors of Professional School Counselors' Ability to Accurate Recognize and Likelihood to Appropriately Report Child Sexual Abuse
… report child sexual abuse. This study used the Defining Issues Test, Version 2 to measure moral reasoning and a modified version of the Teacher Reporting Questionnaire to measure accuracy to recognize and likeliness to report child sexual abuse. A multiple regression analysis was used examine …
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Three Factors That Contribute to College Students' Acceptance and Tolerance of Diversity: Religiosity, Moral Reasoning and Attributional Complexity
… Kentucky University. The subjects completed the Defining Issues Test, Attributional Complexity Scale, general diversity survey, and a measure of religiosity. Findings include a significant correlation between the level of attributional complexity and moral reasoning and attributional complexity …
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Development and Validation of a Perceived Legitimacy of Hazing Behavior Scale for College Coaches
… inclusion of a demographic questionnaire, the Defining Issues Test -2 (Rest, Narvaez, Thoma, & Bebeau, 1999), the Social Desirability Scale - Short Form (Strahan & Gerbasi, 1972).</p>
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A study of the ethical decision making ability of the hospitalized individual
… non-hospitalized adults. The null hypothesis was tested and rejected: There is no difference between the ethical decision making of the hospitalized and the non-hospitalized individual. Results indicated that because of the "treatment" given (hospitalization) there is a high probability that …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning Between American and Chinese College Students
… and moral reasoning measured with two DIT (Defining Issues Test) scores as dependent variables.</p> <p>No effects were found for gender and ethnicity on epistemological beliefs and moral reasoning. Significant differences were found between American college students and Chinese college …
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An analysis of Kohlbergian moral development in relationship to biblical factors of morality in seminary students
… an analysis of demographic variables and the Defining Issues Test 2 . A history of moral thought was developed to show the gradual, but certain, shift from an objective view of truth to a subjective view and from faith to reason. Differing views on the nature of man and on the authority over …
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Moral Development in Pilot Populations
<p>Ethical issues are becoming more commonplace in society today and while most industries are taking steps to improve poor ethical decisions through ethics education, aviation is lagging behind in both understanding of ethical issues inherent to the industry and ethics education. In this study …
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The Relationships Among School Counselors' Multicultural Competence, Demographic Data And Ethical Decision-Making
… and Dufrene, 2000; Adapted from James Rest's Defining Issues Test©, 1979, All Rights Reserved). The participants' demographic data was collected through the use of a demographic survey. All data was collected electronically through the use of an online survey tool, surveymonkey.com©. The …
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Learning on the Job: A Professional and Ethical Profile of Washington State Interpreters
… decision-making schemas as measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT; n=6), and decision making within the context of the interpreted encounter (intermediate concepts and surface-level concepts) with think-aloud interviews using interpreting vignettes (n=5). This information was analyzed in …
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Are There Personality Factors That Can Undermine Moral Judgment Development?
… fail to utilize empathy may think about moral issues just as those who do employ empathy but find them easier to ignore. This study attempted to explore this research from a different angle by examining the relationships between antisocial personality traits as opposed to prosocial personality …
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Ethical Reasoning, Machiavellian Behavior, and Gender: The Impact on Accounting Students' Ethical Decision Making
… and non-business majors. This study uses the Defining Issues Test, Version 2 (Rest, et al., 1999) to measure accounting students' ethical reasoning processes. The Mach IV scale (Christie and Geis, 1970) is used to measure moral behavior. Eight ethical vignettes adapted from prior ethics …
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An assessment of pastors' moral development stage related to conflict management styles
… development occurs in human beings. It used the Defining Issues Test, developed by James Rest, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument developed by Kenneth W. Thomas and Ralph H. Kilmann, and demographic questions to survey the sample. The population of this research was senior pastors of the …
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Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity (IMM) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population
… four prominent measures of maturity, i.e., The Defining Issues Test (DIT), the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status - Second Revision (EOM-EIS-2), and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales including the Wechsler Intelligence …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Moral Developmental Theory: the Influence of Collectivism on Moral Reasoning of Asian Students and Caucasian American Students
… <p>Methodology. Analyses of variance, t-test, correlational analyses, and regression analyses were performed to investigate the relationship between ethnicity, moral reasoning, and collectivism using the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and the Individualism-Collectivism (INDCOL) Scale. These …
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