Social Justice and Moral Reasoning: An Empirical Integration of Two Paradigms in Psychological Research |
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Authors: | Wendorf Craig A Alexander Sheldon Firestone Ira J |
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Institution: | (1) Wayne State University, Germany |
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Abstract: | Distributive and procedural justice are of central importance to past and current theories of the psychology of moral development and the social psychology of justice. In order to explicate the relationships among theories, participants responded to both a measure of moral reasoning and a measure of 15 various justice criteria. Analyses showed that each schema of moral reasoning was significantly predicted by different concerns about social justice. Furthermore, individuals' judgments about justice were best represented by four factors, offering a broader definition of justice in relation to moral schemas. The findings were consistent with Kohlbergian theory; moral reasoning appears to proceed from concerns about self-interest to distributive fairness to procedural justice. |
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Keywords: | procedural justice distributive justice moral reasoning self-interest |
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