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Professional Moral Sensitivity Character In News Reporting And The Relationship With Empathy

Posted on:2010-11-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L QuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275493893Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Moral sensitivity is a new research field which is explored in the recent 20 years. The reason why so many people focus on it is that Rest initiates the moral four elements model of moral behavior. He believes that moral sensitivity, moral judgment, moral motivation and moral character together lead to moral behavior. Then people change research focus from focusing on moral judgment to moral sensitivity in moral psychology field. The first paper in moral sensitivity is dental doctor's ethical sensitivity from Bebeau & Rest, which measures ethical sensitivity in interview approach. In fact, there are less quantitive researches in moral sensitivity. So this paper tries to explore professional moral sensitivity's underlying structure and character in quantitive approach. Meanwhile, we find people take more attention on professional ethic of reporter. How do we handle the conflict between news value and professional ethic in reporting? That's a great question. So this paper explores professional moral sensitivity in quantitive approach from communication field perspective.This paper consists of three parts:1 make up professional moral sensitivity questionnaire in reporting and is administered, and then test this questionnaire's reliability and validity ; recheck Empathy Quotient test and is administered to check it's reliability and validity.2 emend professional moral sensitivity questionnaire in reporting and Empathy Quotient according to pretest result and then formally administer them.3 analyze its character of professional moral sensitivity in reporting and the correlation relationship with Empathy Quotient score.The main conclusions in this paper consist of:1 There are distinct differences among college students, reporter and non practitioner in professional moral sensitivity in reporting. Reporters have the least professional moral sensitivity in reporting. 2 There are distinct correlation relationship between professional moral sensitivity in reporting and Empathy Quotient score, which means there are close relationship between them.3 There are not distinct gender, diploma, and grade differences in professional moral sensitivity in reporting.4 The professional moral sensitivity questionnaire in reporting after be emended two times contains three cases, there are 17 items each case, so there are 51 items in this questionnaire. These items are distributed to four factors: distinguishing negative result, moral judgment, distinguishing stake holder and moral weight. This questionnaire is proved to have good reliability and validity and to be a good scale.
Keywords/Search Tags:reporter, professional moral sensitivity, empathy
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