Experimental Study of the Features of Moral Concepts and Moral Regulation of Behavior of Children with Intellectual Disability

Shcherbakova A.M.
PhD in Education, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher, Professor, Chair of Special Psychology and Rehabilitation, Department of Clinical and Special Psychology, Moscow State Univerity of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8932-4102
e-mail: shcherbakova.a.m@yandex.ru

Lykova N.S.
Senior Lecturer, Chair of Special Psychology & Rehabilitation, Faculty of Clinical & Special Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4159-5560
e-mail: lykonat@rambler.ru

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The article focuses on the problem of development of moral sphere of personality of children with intellectual disability (mild mental retardation) in the context of development of their life competence. Personal outcomes are considered as one of the most important indicators of the formation of life competence. Particular attention is paid to the moral development of children with intellectual disability. The results of an experimental study of the characteristics of moral perceptions and behavior of younger students with mental retardation of 9-10 years old brought up in different conditions - family and institutional are presented. Students of a comprehensive school with a normotypic development were also involved. The sample was 76 people. A study was made of the moral position, and on this basis the prediction of one's own behavior and the behavior of others in solving moral dilemmas, as well as the actual behavior of the child in a situation of moral choice.

Keywords: life competence, moral development, mental retardation, children with mental retardation, orphans

Column: Empirical research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2020090211

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