The Relationship of Moral Judgment and Ego Development to Political-Social Values in Black College Students

An investigation was made of interrelationships among ego development, moral judgment, self-concept, and political- social values within a Black College-age population. Two alternative models were structured of possible interrelation ships based on the literature generated by the research groups of Lawrence Kohlberg and Jane Loevinger. Data gathered on 193 college students were probed by regression analyses. The results failed to validate either of the two proposed models, but they did indicate that moral judgment has a greater causal influence that did ego development. The discussion explores factors that might account for our failure to obtain a more complex pattern of relationships among these variables.