An Exploration of the Affecting Factors of Taiwanese’ Ethics and Moral Concepts

AbstractFor long time, Chinese people believed in karma originated from traditional religious believes and philosophy, which maintaining the social order; but recently, the concepts and behavior related to ethics and moral has gradually declined is showing obviously. To explore the possible affecting factors, this research collected relevant examples which connected to the concepts of ethics and moral, divided them into three constructs of ethics roots, academic viewpoints, and the practical status, then developed a questionnaire to conduct the exploration study of Taiwanese’ ethics and moral concept. 1222 subjects response were analyzed, the result showed that about 75% of subjects have no specific believes, and the effect of life experience is far more than the traditional doctrines, possible showing that the influence of religious and philosophy believes is downgrading. Although the overall variance explanation to the construct of academic viewpoints is merely acceptable, the analyzed result also shown that Taiwanese people’ rating to the theories of power dominance, self-interest, and Utilitarianism are negative, which further affected the down-rating to the workplace ethics and current status of education. Finally, the exploration regression analysis shown that the current status of education has strong correlation and explanation to the variance of the practical status, which revealed the importance of education relevant to the local customs and workplace ethics