Defining Issues Test.

DIT / DIT-2

What it measures

Moral judgement development in the Kohlbergian tradition - the degree to which a person uses post-conventional (principled) moral reasoning when evaluating moral dilemmas; yields P-score and N2 index, plus schema scores (Personal Interest, Maintaining Norms, Postconventional)

Length and format

6 dilemmas (DIT) / 5 dilemmas (DIT-2), each with 12 rated + ranked considerations. rate and rank the importance of considerations for each moral dilemma (recognition task) (situational judgment test)

Language versions

Translated into many languages and used in 40+ countries (e.g. ES, DE, ZH, KO, JA, AR, and others)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

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Reference

Rest, J., Narvaez, D., Bebeau, M. J., & Thoma, S. J. (1999). Postconventional Moral Thinking: A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach. Erlbaum. DIT-2 via the Center for the Study of Ethical Development.