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19 - An Integrative Approach to Moral DevelopmentDuring Adolescence

from Part IV - Origins, Development, and Variation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

By
Abigail A. Baird  and
Margaret M. Matthews
Edited by
Bertram Malle  and
Philip Robbins
Bertram Malle
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Philip Robbins
Affiliation:
University of Missouri
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This chapter of the handbook takes up the issue of moral development in adolescence. The authors’ wide-ranging discussion touches on how differences in temperament, gender, familial and peer relationships, and lived experience influence the timing and outcome of adolescent moral development. Regarding the role of temperament, for example, high-reactive individuals may be more prone to impulsive behavior that violates moral norms, whereas low-reactive individuals may be more likely to conform to moral norms because they are more sensitive to the threat of punishment. On the importance of interpersonal relationships, weak attachment to caregivers in adolescence is associated with impairments of empathy and a greater propensity for antisocial and immoral behavior. Peer influence is another key predictor of both antisocial and prosocial behavior in adolescence. Further, moral development in adolescence critically depends on the maturation of capacities for empathy and self-conscious emotion, a process that is shaped by the individual’s lived experience.

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moral developmentadolescencetemperamentgenderinterpersonal relationshipsempathyself-conscious emotionslived experience
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The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology , pp. 462 - 491
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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