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Gender and Dilemma Differences in Real-Life Moral Judgment.

Gillian R. Wark, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1996 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 2, pp 220-230
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In this paper, the effects of gender, gender role, and type of moral dilemma on moral maturity and moral orientation were investigated for female and male university students who were given the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PQ).
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The authors investigated the effects of gender, gender role, and type of moral dilemma on moral maturity and moral orientation. Fifty-five female and 55 male university students were given the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (J. T. Spence & R. L. Helmreich, 1978), L. Kohlberg's test of moral judgm

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