A Research On The "Cheng Xin" Value Of Children At The Age From 10-16 Year-old

This research was based on the theory of the formation process of value, which was put forward by Value Clarification. In the research a questionnaire was used with 403 primary and middle school students aged from 10 to 16 year-old as subjects and four moral situational stories were compiled as stimulus materials to study "Cheng Xin". A real situation about "Cheng" was also designed as well. The results were as follows: (1) The 10,12,14-year-old children had the value indicators of cognitive- judgment, acting-incline, affective-experience and behavior-repeating-trend. The 16-year-old children had the value indicators of cognitive-judgment, acting-incline and behavior-repeating-trend, their scores on the aspects of cognitive-judgment, acting- incline and affective-experience were less than others, and their score on behaving-repeating-trend was higher than others.(2) Comparing the two different project situations, the scores of all subjects at different ages were higher in the "role-taking project" one than in the "general project" one.(3) Comparing the two incentive situations, the acting-incline was worse in the "having incentive" situation than in the "having no incentive " one, the affective -experience of children at age of 10-year-old had no difference between the two situations, and the affective-experience of children at age of 12-year-old and 14-year-old were much positive in the "having no incentive" situation than in the other, and the children at the age of 16-year-old was more positive in the "having incentive" situation than in the other. (4) Comparing the behaviors in the real situation with the cognitive-judgment and the acting-incline in the questionnaire, there were differences between them. (5) No sex differences were found in the research except on the cognitive- judgment on "Cheng Xin".(6) There were differences between the two stories about "Cheng", the two stories about "Xin", the "Cheng" and the "Xin".