John,
Here is just one review article I found on
PubMed:
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J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2004 Mar;33(1):54-68.
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Temperament
and developmental pathways to conduct problems.
Frick PJ, Morris AS.
This article reviews research linking a number of temperamental vulnerabilities
to the development of severe conduct problems in children. Also reviewed are 2
areas of research that focus on important developmental processes that could
mediate the relation between temperament and conduct problems. These processes
are the development of emotional regulatory abilities and the development of
the affective components of conscience. Both of these processes have been
associated with certain temperamental vulnerabilities, and they can both place
a child at risk for the development of conduct problems. Importantly, these 2
processes may designate children who develop conduct problems through distinct
causal pathways and, as a result, could help to explain some of the subtypes of
antisocial youth reported in past research.
PMID: 15028541 [PubMed - in process]
To find similar studies go to the PubMed site at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
and type in “conscience”. The National Library of Medicine (MedLine)
is a data base of all major and most minor US and international peer-reviewed medical
research since 1956.
Izzy
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conscience
Some thoughts on the conscience?
I am beginning a process that will allow a research paper on the conscience.
As an avocation, I am still involved in pastoring -- as a pastoral
counselor. The biblical message has high regard for the conscience of man
while modern psychology does not. As a consequence, there is little or no
secular research regarding the conscience.
I am thinking that if we could understand just how the conscience is
reestablished, we might have a tool of divine proportions that will assist in
youth-at-risk interventions.
I need ideas about the conscience and how those ideas relate to the biblical
message. If any of you are aware of research, especially
Christian based research, relating to matters of the conscience, point me in
that direction. I, of course, will have little problem coming
up with biblical references --- so I do not scripture; rather, I will
need interpretation or applications that are related to specific scripture.
The conscience works with guilt and an internal moral code and only
'convicts" or is triggered when we violate that code . it works to keep us
true to ourselves. It never convicts, i.e., when we forget or fail to do something
that wrong or evil.
In my life, it is interesting to observe my battle against cussing.
I am quite accomplished in this area of endeavor.
When I made the decision to stop that practice (I am
journeyman finish carpenter) I (a) told no one of my
decision and (b) within three or four days of abstinence, felt the pangs of
guilt on the first occasion of failure. That guilt trigger was not because
of social pressure because no one knew I had quit. My conscience
had been revived in this regard within hours of my decision and practice.
I just mention this to get some juices flowing out there in TT
land.
In Grace
John Smithson
