THE DIFFERENCES IN MORAL, GROUP IDENTITY AND THE PERCON’S VARIABILITY DEPENDING ON THE EDUCATION

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to the analysis of differences in the moral development and categories of identity of young people who differ in the level of the education completeness. Method. The study of the moral differences is conducted by means of the method of dilemmas proposed by L. Kohlberg in the modification, and the categories of identity with the help of M. Kuhn’s method «The test of twenty statements» also in the modification. The statistical analysis of the significant differences between the average values has been carried out with the use of the U-criterion of Mann-Whitney’s package Statistica for Windows 8. Results. The results of the study have revealed the dominance of all specified assessment parameters in the group of test subjects with incomplete higher education: higher level of moral development in all dilemmas (the opposition of life values (compassion) and following the law, self-interest – the interests of the city (law), business (benefit) and law, personal interests (career) and the freedom of another person), except for the dilemma of the opposition between the interests of a majority and a single person. The differences have also been revealed between the two groups of test subjects according to the group identity, group variability, the desirability of the common categories of identity.

Keywords

• групповая идентичность
• групповая изменяемость
• развитие морали
• когнитивная психология