The Probe into The Effects of Moral Intensity and Moral Philosophy on Ethical Decision-Making－Take Corporal Punishment for Example

• Main Authors: Tsai Tsui-Yuan, 蔡翠菀
• Other Authors: 曾清枝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p2vurd

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班 === 102 === n the past, corporal punishment is often one of the means used to discipline students in Taiwan society. However , Western humanism and the influence of the legal system has changed the way of educating students in recent years. After the legalization of the “zero corporal punishment” policy, there are more constraints for teachers in disciplining students. But corporal punishment occurs frequently in recent years, and those problems are drawing the concerns of the public. When the ethical issues are within the corporal punishment, teachers' ethical decision-making process and related factors is the theme of this research to investigate. In this research, we applied the Rest (1986) and Jones' (1991) model of ethical decision theory for the theoretical foundation to develop the ethical decision-making model structure of teachers, , and explore the impact of teachers' ethical decision-making factors from the dimensions of the moral issues (moral intensity) and individual moral philosophy. This research develops moral scenarios of corporal punishment and associated assumptions, and then collects 322 effective samples to detect and analyze empirically. The data were analyzed with SPSS by using the methods of descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results indicate: 1. The stages of teachers' ethical decision-making process (moral perception, moral judgment and moral intention) have the positive correlation. And the moral perception has the positive and significant impact on the moral judgment, the moral judgment has the positive and significant impact on the moral intention. 2. Moral intensity has the positive and significant impact on ethical decision-making process. 3. Idealism of Individual moral philosophy has positive and significant impact on moral decision-making process. in all four moral scenarios of corporal punishment. Relativism of individual moral philosophy have significant impact in two moral scenarios of corporal punishment. 4. Job-function of teacher’s personal characteristics has significant difference on moral intensity, but gender, teaching experiences and education has no significant difference on moral intensity.