A Study On The Relationship Among Altruistic Behavior, Empathy And Moral Judgment Of Senior Middle School Students

This research focuses on the relationship among cognition, emotion and behavior. It tries to find out the relationship among senior middle school students' altruistic behavior, empathy and moral judgment and how empathy, moral judgment and demography factors such as sex influence altruistic behavior. We hope it will provide some reference for the practice of morality education in schools.Empathy questionnaire and altruistic behavior—evaluate others questionnaire designed by the author and moral judgment competence test of teenager were used to research 481 senior middle school students. The insult indicates that the girls' empathy ability is significantly higher than the boys'. Empathy ability of students in Grade 1&2 is significantly higher than that of students in Grade 3. As concerns to moral judgment, this research manifests that the girls' moral judgment competence is significantly higher than the boys'. Moral judgment competence of students in Grade 2 is significantly higher than that of students in Grade 3&1. And Moral judgment competence of students in Grade 1 is significantly lower than that of students in Grade 3&2. The result also demonstrates that the girls significantly conduct much more altruistic behavior than the boys. Sex, empathy and moral judgment can forecast students' altruistic behavior. In these three influence factors, Sex and empathy directly forecast students' altruistic behavior, although moral judgment indirectly impact on altruistic behavior by impacting on empathy first.