20世纪90年代以来美国青少年的伦理品格状况与特点评析

An Analysis on Current Situation of Ethics Character of American Youth since the 1990s

20世纪90年代以来,美国约瑟夫森研究所—青少年伦理道德中心(Josephson Institute,Center for Yourth Ethics)每两年在全国中学生中围绕不诚实行为,如撒谎、作弊、偷窃等,抽样数万人调查学生的伦理品格状况。1998～2008年连续6次的调查结果表明,美国青少年伦理品格方面存在不容忽视的问题,这些问题的产生都有着深刻的社会根源。

Since the 1990% Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics of America has conducted a national survey on the ethics character of American youth every two years, focusing on the dishonesty behavior, which includes telling a lie, cheating and stealing and so on. Data is gathered through a national sample of more than ten thousand students in high schools across the America. It summarizes that the six surveys in 1998-2008 has shown the serious problems in ethics character of American youth, and the social roots from which those problems derive in American youth.