Date of Award:
5-1987
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
D. Kim Openshaw
Committee
D. Kim Openshaw
Committee
Jay D. Schvaneveldt
Committee
Donald V. Sisson
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between the content of moral thought and premarital sexual standards. The sample used (n=159) was homogeneous and purposive; the majority of the sample was female, second year college students, and Caucasian. A discriminant analysis using the sexual standards of permissiveness with affection and the traditional standard as dependent variables, and the moral constructs of egoism, hedonism, nonhedonism, utilitarianism, deontology, rule-utilitarianism, act-utilitarianism, rule-orientation, and act-orientation as independent (predictor) variables was run. This analysis resulted in a final model in which egoism, hedonism, nonhedonism, act-utilitarianism, and rule-orientation were found to be the polarizing variables between the traditional group and the permissiveness with affection group.
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Recommended Citation
Anderson, Janet H., "The Relationship Between the Content Component of Cognitive Moral Development and Premarital Sexual Standards" (1987). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2531.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2531
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