ABSTRACT

To better understand the development of ethical communicators, this study applies the framework of Jones’ ethical decision-making model to explore how students in a first-year public speaking class deal with an issue related to plagiarism during a speech assignment. A modified model with five components was developed. An ethical scenario was presented to student participants (n = 383) in multiple sections of a first year general education public speaking course. Moral intensity was found to have a direct impact on three other components of the model: recognition of an ethical issue, making an ethical judgment, and ethical behavioral intentions. Course content and policy related to plagiarism affected students’ ethical behavioral intentions. The interrelationships among these five components are discussed.

摘要

为了更好地理解道德交际者的发展，本研究采用琼斯道德决策模型的框架来探讨在一年级公共演讲课上的学生在演讲任务中如何处理与窃有关的问题。开发了具有五个组件的修改模型。在第一年普通教育公共演讲​​课程的多个部分中，向学生参与者（n = 383）展示了一种道德情景。人们发现道德强度直接影响模型的其他三个组成部分：对道德问题的承认，做出道德判断和道德行为意图。与窃有关的课程内容和政策影响了学生的道德行为意图。讨论了这五个组成部分之间的相互关系。