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The Influence of Moral Disengagement and Punishment Perception on Early Childhood Care Practitioners Ethical Decisionmaking
Psychology: Techniques and Application. 2017, 5 (12):
736-745.
DOI: 10.16842/j.cnki.issn2095-5588.2017.12.005
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 practitioners professional ethical decisionmaking, 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 kindergartenbenefit and childrenharm situations. Obscuring causal relationship and distorted the harmful effects could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenharm situations. Moral justification and obscuring causal relationship could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenharm and childrenharm situations. And moral justification could predict ethical judgment under kindergartenbenefit 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 decisionmaking between organizationgain and organizationharm situations. Results demonstrate that managers ethical judgment and behavioral intention were both lower under organizationgain situations than organizationharms. Results provide evidences that moral disengagement could affect individuals decision on vocational ethics, and will contribute to understanding the psychological processes of early childhood care practitioners ethical decisionmaking. The limitations of the study and directions of future research were also discussed.
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