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| Published: March 23, 2021
Exploring pro-social moral reasoning of Sri Lankan school children using Eisenbergian dilemmas
Department of Psychology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Google Scholar More about the auther
Department of Psychology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.101/20210901
DOI: 10.25215/0901.101
ABSTRACT
Prosocial moral reasoning is an area that is supported through past research as having gender, age, and cultural variations. However, so far it had not been measured in the Sri Lankan context. The present study explored the age and gender differences in prosocial moral reasoning of Sri Lankan children using Eisenbergian dilemmas. The participants of this study were 86 school children representing grades five, eight, and eleven, who answered four culturally adapted stories from Eisenberg’s original study. A comparison was made between the findings of the present study and the original study of Eisenberg. Through the analysis it was found that there was a cultural difference in the development of prosocial reasoning since the majority of the sample was in level 3-approval seeking and stereotyped orientation. Similar to the original study, participants showed a gradual increase in their level of morality with age but in fewer numbers. All these differences highlight the need to develop a separate theoretical model for non-western cultural settings for prosocial behaviour.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Miriyagalla U. P. & Pathirana B.D.D.
Received: January 06, 2021; Revision Received: March 11, 2021; Accepted: March 23, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.101/20210901
10.25215/0901.101
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 1, January-March, 2021