Defining Issues Test.
DIT / DIT-2
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)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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)
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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.
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