心理距离对初中生和大学生道德判断的影响.pdfVIP

Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2017, 7(7), 924-930 Published Online July 2017 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2017.77116 The Effect of Psychological Distance on the College Students’ and Junior Middle School Students’ Moral Judgment Chunping Yan, Jing Ma Department of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical College, Xinxiang Henan rd st th Received: Jul. 3 , 2017; accepted: Jul. 21 , 2017; published: Jul. 24 , 2017 Abstract Objective: To explore the effect of temporal distance and social distance on the college students’ and junior middle school students’ moral judgment. Methods: 80 college students participants in grade 1 - 3 from Xinxiang Medical College and 80 junior middle school students in grade 8 from a middle school of Anyang city were randomly selected, who were asked to answer some questions about the moral judgments in six moral stories involving different temporal distance and social distance. The 2 (temporal distance: today vs. a year later) × 2 (social distance: a good friend vs. a stranger) × 2 (student type: college students vs. junior middle school students) × 6 (situational stories: 1 - 6) were adopted, student type, temporal distance and social distance being between- subject variables and situational stories being within-subject variables, and the evaluated moral scores being dependent variable. Results: The statistical analysis indicated that, the main effects of student type and situational stories was significant, F(1, 146) = 10.355, P 0.01, F(1,730) = 27.96, P 0.001, and the interaction effect between situational stories, student type and social distance was significant, F(1,730) = 2.566, P 0.05. The simple-simple effect analysis showed