This study investigated the effect of attachemet and relational self on moral development in terms of gender. The subjects were 53 males and 47 females undergraduate students aging from 19 to 29 years old. With the inventory of the Korean Defining Issue Test(DIT), Relational Self Scale, Inventory of parent, and peer attachment(IPPA) were used. As a result of correlation analysis, overall relationships among moral development, attachment and the relational self were significant with sex difference. According to the results of multi-regression analysis, there were significant effects of maternal attachment and 'positive relationship experience' factor on moral development in female groups, but not in male groups. The implications and the limitations of this study were discussed in terms of Gulligna"s moral development theory.
This study examined the mediating role of collective self-esteem in the relationship between personal self-esteem and career aspiration, and the mediating effects of personal self-esteem and collective self-esteem on the link between social support and career aspiration. Also, This study explored whether the development of career aspiration differs by gender. A total of 316 undergraduate students(155 male and 161 female) completed measures of social support, personal self-esteem, collective self-esteem and career aspiration. Structural equation modeling results provided support for the mediating effects of personal self-esteem and collective self-esteem, In addition, the relationship model differed by gender. The results showed that the full mediation model fit of collective self-esteem in the relationship between individual self-esteem and career aspiration was better than the partial mediation model fit. Next, in the relation of social support and career aspiration, the partial mediating effect of individual self-esteem and collective self esteem was significant. Lastly, when the model of social support, individual self-esteem, and collective self-esteem, and career aspiration was tested to examine gender differences, the relations among these variables were found to be different according to gender-difference. These results suggest that evaluations and perceptions on the individual's social group as well as the individual influedced to career aspiration, interacting with the environmental factors. Also, the gender-difference of relationship model indicates that it might be different from men and women in psychological mechanism in the career aspiration formation.
