The development of moral judgement during childhood and pre-adolescence in the Romanian setting

Abstract

Moral development is a classical topic, but still insufficiently investigated in recent studies in Romania. Our study aimed to compare the results obtained by Piaget regarding the child’s moral development with the child’s moral development corresponding to the recent cultural Romanian setting. The research method is mixed, qualitative and quantitative. The clinical interview and the short stories were designed after Piaget’s model. Our findings suggest the existence of the same classical stages of moral development but identify numerous mixed profiles that highlight the oscillations of moral judgments for amoral children and submissive pre-adolescences.