Relations of moral autonomy types to psychological adaptations in Japanese adolescents

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This research examined the relationships between development of moral autonomy and psychological adaptation in Japanese adolescents. Especially, it was focused how moral autonomy types appears and changes in adolescence. And relations of their types to quality of parent-child conflicts, self-development, and psychological health were analyzed. Five studies total 1091 adolescents, from junior high school students to undergraduate students, participated were conducted. As a result, it was found out in common that adaptation of the "over discretion type" adolescents who asserts the right of discretion across domains were the most insufficient. This result is contrary with the result of traditional adolescence research which suggested that parents over control weakened adaptation of adolescence. Rather, this result is parallel with adolescents' moral regression in Kohlberg theory. Based on these results, the model of the development of moral autonomy in adolescence was considered.