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A Study of Relationships Between Moral Development and Empathy in a Church's Peer Ministry Training Program for Adolescents

This study was designed to assess the effects of a peer ministry training course upon adolescents' ability to respond empathetically and upon their level of moral development. Volunteers from a church's high school group were blocked by gender and randomly divided into two groups . Adolescents in the treatment group were trained in thirteen sessions basic helping skills (emphasizing empathy) and measured before and after training on variables of empathy, moral development, and internality - externality. Adolescents in the second group were used as a control and were measured with the same assessment devices.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332774
Date12 1900
CreatorsScott, Frank H. (Frank Hooper)
ContributorsEngels, Dennis W.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 134 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Scott, Frank H. (Frank Hooper), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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