One dimension in the development of the valuing process is the direction of moral emphasis; that is, whether one stresses behaviors which have been stated prescriptively or proscriptively. Prescriptively, one can be rewarded for doing right or punished for not doing right while on the proscriptive side, wrong-doing is emphasized in both rewards and punishments. A sentence completion method of modest odd-even reliability (r = .64) is described as one potential measure of this dimension. Prescriptive values were found to vary with the subject’s perception of child rearing practices. There was a significant interaction (p < .05) between prescriptive values scores and direct-object reward and punishment scores on the Roe-Siegelman Parent Child Relations Questionnaire. High prescriptive scores were associated with a perception of mothers as more rewarding and less punishing.

Keywords:
Development, Values, Prescriptive, Proscriptive, Child-rearing, Reward, Punishment
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1971
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