Youths’ Everyday Morality: Understanding the Role of Values and Emotions in a Mixed Methods Study
| dc.contributor.author | Wong Garcia, Nicole Jennifer | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-25T16:28:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-25T16:28:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study explores how emotional intensity, and values relate to different types of everyday moral judgments in youths. A total of 81 participants, aged 16 to 24, completed an online survey which consisted of 3 measures: 4 videos for two types of moral dilemmas (2 for Care/Fairness, and 2 for Authority) from Moral and Affective Film Set (MAAFS) (McCurrie et al., 2018), items from the self-transcendence and conservation subscales of the Portrait Values Questionnaire [PVQ] (S. H. Schwartz et al., 2001), and emotional reactivity measures through 5 video stimuli. The youths provided quantitative and qualitative information for this study. Emotional intensity was found to predict Care/Fairness moral situations, whereas conservation values were found to predict Authority-related transgression. Qualitative responses highlighted different themes that relate to moral foundations, like harm, unfair advantage, and disrespect to others. On the other hand, the themes of normalizing behavior or how fair it is to judge the actions of the characters gave us a further understanding of youth’s everyday morality. Finally, ambiguity was identified in the reasoning of the young people, since some condemned an action, while others justified it, thus evidencing the complexity of their moral evaluation. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ec.msvu.ca/handle/10587/2313 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mount Saint Vincent University | |
| dc.title | Youths’ Everyday Morality: Understanding the Role of Values and Emotions in a Mixed Methods Study | |
| dc.type | Thesis |