caa a22 4500 386339678 CHVBK 20180307111744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000286 doi S0954579400000286 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000286 Hypothetical versus real-life moral reasoning among psychopathic and delinquent youth [Elektronische Daten] Differences in moral reasoning concerning hypothetical versus real-life conflicts were examined with a sample of 44 youths (aged 15-18 years) who were classified as psychopathic, delinquent, or normal. All subjects were individually interviewed and assessed on (a) Hare's Psychopathy Checklist, (b) two of Kohlberg's hypothetical moral dilemmas, and (c) a subject-generated real-life moral dilemma. The results revealed that the normal youths attained a higher level of moral reasoning than either the delinquents or psychopaths. All groups scored lower on the real-life than the hypothetical dilemmas, indicating that hypothetical dilemmas may best elicit a person's level of moral reasoning competence, whereas real-life dilemmas may entail factors that lower the level of reasoning used in a situation of moral conflict. These two dilemma types also were found to elicit differing moral orientations. Finally, psychopaths were found to orient more to egoistic concerns than did delinquents when discussing real-life dilemmas. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Trevethan Shelley D. University of British Columbia Walker Lawrence J. University of British Columbia Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-04), 91-103 0954-5794 1:2<91 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Trevethan Shelley D. University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walker Lawrence J. University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-04), 91-103 0954-5794 1:2<91 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge