A Study of Children's Moral Judgement

幼稚園児(5歳2か月～6歳1か月)と小学校1年生(6歳2か月～7歳1か月)の男女160名を対象に,「例話」における手掛かり情報の強調および内容が,子どもの道徳的判断に与える影響を実験的に検討したところ,1)幼稚園児に比べ小学校1年生では動機論的判断が多く安定している,2)動機情報を強調呈示すると動機論的判断が増し,その傾向は幼稚園児で顕著である,3)動機情報の内容が「故意」あるいは結果情報の内容が「悪い」で,道徳的判断の動機論化が生じ,特に結果情報の場合は幼稚園児で明瞭である,などの知見が得られた。以上の事実は,判断の手掛かりとなる情報の呈示について考慮すれば,これらの年齢級では,道徳的判断で動機論化が促され得るという,非常に教育的示唆に富む結果であると言えよう。One hundred sixty normal children (80 kindregartners aged 5:2 to 6:1 and 80 1st graders aged 6:2 to 7:1) were tested about their moral judgement by 20 episodes. The main results were as follows: 1) 1st graders made more stable and motivismic moral judgements than kindergartners; 2) by stressing the motive elements of cue informations in the episodes, the motivismic moral judgement increased and this fact was found more obviously in kindergartners; 3) "intentional" motive informations or "bad" consequence ones tended to motivismize these children's moral judgements, and so on. The results suggested that motivismizing the moral judgement of children at these age levels would be facilitated by operating the presentation of cue informations in the episodes