Summary and discussionBy both correlation analysis and ordinal logistic regressive modelling, this study hasfound that there is no significant association between accounting students’ ethicalsensitivity and ethical reasoning (operationized in terms of principled score –P-score).The absolute Pearson correlation coefficient between the accounting students’ ethicalsensitivity and ethical reasoning is only 0.11. This finding is consistent with thefindings in prior studies (Rest, 1986; Shaub, 1989; Patterson, 2001) and providesadditional empirical evidence to support Rest’s theory. Rest’s (1983) theory postulatesthat morality is not a single, unitary process and that ethical sensitivity and ethicaljudgment are two of the four separable components. Accounting students in this studywere also found to vary in their sensitivity to ethical issues in terms of their ability toidentify the three embedded ethical issues in the auditing scenario as well as theirperception in relation to the importance of three ethical issues being identified. Thisfinding is also consistent with the ethics literature (Staub, 1978; Rest, 1986; Bebeauet al., 1981, 1985)
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