| Summary: | Part of the adolescent development task are developes self-identity and
developes morality, as the cognitive development on adolescence. According to
Erikson, adolescent who has not achive the self-identity process, will become an
adolescent with identity diffusion. As the self-identity development process,
adolescent also has an experience moral development process, particularly moral
reasoning. Kohlberg stated that late adolescent, ideally, have conventional stage �
the stage of internalitation values. In some researches, adolescent with identity
diffusion, will show low morality, and the contrary also.
This study was aimed to explore the correlation between self-identity and
moral reasoning among adolescent in social exchange context. Data was obtained
from 59 late adolescent (18-24) of Papua and West Papua whom studying and
staying in Yogyakarta, Bantul and Sleman. Self-identity was assesed by the self-
Identity Scale , while moral reasoning was assesed by Defining Issues Test (DIT).
The correlation was analyzed by ANOVA.
The study indicates positive correlation between self-identity and moral
reasoning among adolescent in social exchange context (correlation on 0.381, p :
0.004 (p < 0,05). It means that there is a significant correlation between self-identity
and moral reasoning among late adolescent. This also indicates undifferent level of
self-identity and moral reasoning between female and male ( t-test for self-identity :
t = -0.134, p = 0.894 > 0.05
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