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Title: Urban America as a Context for the Development of Moral Identity in Adolescence
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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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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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