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Author: Ford, Debra
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Hart, Daniel Atkins, Robert L. Ford, Debra |
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Family Influences on the Formation of Moral Identity in Adolescence: Longitudinal Analyses Journal of Moral Education 28,3 (September 1999): 375-386 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company ==> Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavior, Prosocial; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Environment; Family Influences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Teenagers; Volunteer Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A model of moral identity formation is presented. According to the model, family influences have a direct effect on moral identity development in adolescence, independent of the effects of personality, income and other factors. The model is tested using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (Child Sample), which is constituted of the children born to a representative sample of American women who were between the ages of 14 and 21 in 1979. In general, the results provide support for the model. Cognitively and socially rich family environments, combined with high levels of parent-adolescent joint activity, were found to facilitate voluntary participation in community service, a marker of moral identity formation. The implications of these findings for parenting, moral education and future research are discussed. |
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Hart, Daniel, Robert L. Atkins and Debra Ford. "Family Influences on the Formation of Moral Identity in Adolescence: Longitudinal Analyses." Journal of Moral Education 28,3 (September 1999): 375-386.
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Hart, Daniel Atkins, Robert L. Ford, Debra |
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Urban America as a Context for the Development of Moral Identity in Adolescence Journal of Social Issues 54,3 (Fall 1998): 513-530. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01233.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior, Antisocial; Behavior, Prosocial; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Income; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Social Emotional Development; Teenagers; Temperament; Urbanization/Urban Living; Volunteer Work Moral identity, defined as a self-consistent commitment to lines of action benefiting others, is described in the contexts of adolescence and poor urban neighborhoods. A model of moral identity development is proposed. According to the model, stable characteristics of the individual and the individual's family, in conjunction with social attitudes, self-conceptions, and opportunities for the exploration of prosocial action, influence the development of moral identity. Analyses from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (828 adolescents and young adults who answered questions relevant to voluntary service as a probabilistic indicator of moral identity formation) provide support for the model, and demonstrate that urban poverty is associated with few opportunities for development of moral identity. It is argued that the provision of these opportunities should be given a high priority both to foster good individual development and as a means for increasing social capital in neighborhoods. ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved) |
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Bibliography Citation
Hart, Daniel, Robert L. Atkins and Debra Ford. "Urban America as a Context for the Development of Moral Identity in Adolescence." Journal of Social Issues 54,3 (Fall 1998): 513-530.
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