Differences in Moral Judgment on Animal and Human Ethics Issues between University Students in Animal-Related, Human Medical and Arts Programs

Autor: Joy M. Verrinder, Clive J. C. Phillips, Remo Ostini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
Students
Medical
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
0403 veterinary science
Information ethics
Animal Rights
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Medicine
Animal Husbandry
lcsh:Science
Animal Management
Multidisciplinary
Pets and Companion Animals
Nursing ethics
05 social sciences
Agriculture
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Middle Aged
Professions
Female
Engineering ethics
Art
Research Article
Adult
Veterinary Medicine
Medical Ethics
medicine.medical_specialty
Principled reasoning
Adolescent
Universities
040301 veterinary sciences
Animal Types
education
Meta-ethics
Moral reasoning
Morals
Veterinarians
Judgment
Young Adult
Humanism
Animals
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Students
Demography
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
business.industry
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Reasoning
Applied ethics
People and Places
Animal ethics
Cognitive Science
Veterinary Science
Population Groupings
lcsh:Q
business
Zoology
Medical ethics
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 3, p e0149308 (2016)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Moral judgment in relation to animal ethics issues has rarely been investigated. Among the research that has been conducted, studies of veterinary students have shown greater use of reasoning based on universal principles for animal than human ethics issues. This study aimed to identify if this was unique to students of veterinary and other animal-related professions. The moral reasoning of first year students of veterinary medicine, veterinary technology, and production animal science was compared with that of students in non-animal related disciplines of human medicine and arts. All students (n = 531) completed a moral reasoning test, the VetDIT, with animal and human scenarios. When compared with reasoning on human ethics issues, the combined group of students evaluating animal ethics issues showed higher levels of Universal Principles reasoning, lower levels of Personal Interest reasoning and similar levels of Maintaining Norms reasoning. Arts students showed more personal interest reasoning than students in most animal-related programs on both animal and human ethics issues, and less norms-based reasoning on animal ethics issues. Medical students showed more norms-based reasoning on animal ethics issues than all of the animal-related groups. There were no differences in principled reasoning on animal ethics issues between program groups. This has implications for animal-related professions and education programs showing that students’ preference for principled reasoning on animal ethics issues is not unique to animal-related disciplines, and highlighting the need to develop student (and professional) capacity to apply principled reasoning to address ethics issues in animal industries to reduce the risk of moral distress.
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