摘要：The present study investigated the construction of the moral concepts of 3-,4-,and 5- year old Korean children. Instruments were the Maternal Behavior Research Instrument by Schaefer for mother and feather nurturing attitudes,and the Domain Distinctiveness Model for children`s moral judgments. Maternal and teacher attitudes were categorized by the affection-rejection factor consisting of affection-affection,affection-rejection,rejection-affection,and rejection-rejection dimensions,and by the permissive,-control factor consisting of permissive-permissive,permissive-control,control-permissive,and control-control dimension. Children`s data were collected with an individualized interview in which children were asked to judge moral and social conventional transgression events. 30 children were assigned to each of the maternal/teacher attitude dimensions;thus,there were 120 children for each factor. Results showed that (1) the affection-affection cohort was must strongly related to moral rules using both the seriousness criterion and deserved punishment criterion,and (2) the permissive-permissive cohort was most strongly related to reasoning and action. However,this cohort did not break out of children`s structural limitation (limited responses to the intangible).
