Cognition Of Youth 's Conflict Of Social Rules

Adopting moral dilemma, this paper has investigated 924 adolescents’ (ranging from 7th grade to 12th grade) cognition of moral and non-moral rules as well as underlying factors. Results of the investigation reveal that:(1) Gender, age and educational background all had influence on the testees’ behaviour tendency. Compared with younger testees, the olders generally considered that conventional rules which conflict with moral rules could be transgressed; when moral rules conflict with nonmoral rules, full-time middle school students were more inclined to obey the former in contrast to vocational high school students, which gives evidence the educational background factor. (2) The effect of predictable results plays a significant role in the test as most testees complied with relevant moral rules to avert paying the price. This further indicates the necessity of paying the price for violating moral rules. (3) When confronting conflicts between related moral rules, prosocial morality rules have a large impact on constraining testees’ behaviour than prohibitual moral rules.The participants’age of this survey is an important period of development for one’s moral cognitive ability. Based on the research and analysis about the teenagers’ understanding of the social rule conflicts, this article reveals the individual differences of teenagers’social development in age, gender, etc. The survey have shown that when it comes to the conflicts of Moral rules, social tradition and the evaluation on the individual have the most impact on action selection of the participants. It will be significant to moral education practice of the teenagers in our daily life.