Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2017, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (12): 736-745.doi: 10.16842/j.cnki.issn2095-5588.2017.12.005

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The Influence of Moral Disengagement and Punishment Perception on Early Childhood Care Practitioners Ethical Decisionmaking

Liang Fenghua; Yu Ruojun; Wang Hong   

  1. (School of Education Science, ShangRao Normal University, ShangRao 334001, China)
  • Online:2017-12-01 Published:2017-12-01

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Abstract: Through questionnaire and situational experiment method, based on the survey of 186 early childhood care practitioners from township kindergarten, this study tried to investigate the influence of moral disengagement and punishment perception on early childhood care practitioners professional ethical decisionmaking, compared the differences of ethical judgment and ethical behavioral intention between four different educational situations. Results demonstrated that moral disengagement was an important antecedent variable of ethical judgment and indirectly affected ethic behavior intention through ethical judgment. Specifically, all three dimensions of moral disengagement, moral justification, obscuring or distorting causal relationship between actions and the effects they cause, disregarding or distorting the consequence, could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenbenefit and childrenharm situations. Obscuring causal relationship and distorted the harmful effects could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenharm situations. Moral justification and obscuring causal relationship could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenharm and childrenharm situations. And moral justification could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenbenefit situations. The relationships between punishment perception, ethical judgment and ethical behavior intention were not significant. That is, the depressive effect of punishment perception on ethical behavior was more significant under low ethical judgment situations. Using paired samples t test, the study compared the differences of ethical decisionmaking between organizationgain and organizationharm situations. Results demonstrate that managers ethical judgment and behavioral intention were both lower under organizationgain situations than organizationharms. Results provide evidences that moral disengagement could affect individuals decision on vocational ethics, and will contribute to understanding the psychological processes of early childhood care practitioners ethical decisionmaking. The limitations of the study and directions of future research were also discussed.

Key words: early childhood care practitioner; moral disengagement; punishment perception; ethical judgment; ethical behavioral intention

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