Moral judgement in relation to emotional stability of children
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2019
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CCSHAU
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Moral judgement is the judgement which deals with the moral values or quality and evaluates the rightness or wrongness of actions. Emotions have a motivating role of supporting moral behaviour and opposing immoral behaviour. The main purpose of the study was to assess moral judgement and emotional stability and investigate the influence of emotional stability and home environment on moral judgement of children. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two schools one government and one private were selected from rural and urban area (four schools). From selected schools 200 children from the age group of 8 to 10 years were selected randomly. The sample consisted of equal number of boys and girls i.e. 25 boys and 25 girls. Self-prepared questionnaire was used to delineate personal and socio-economic variables of children. Moral Judgment Test by Sinha and Verma (1971), Emotional Stability Test for Children by Gupta and Singh (1985) and Home environment Test by Mohite (1989) were used to assess moral judgment, emotional stability and home environment of children respectively. Frequency, percentages, mean, standard deviation, āzā test, chi-square, coefficient of correlation and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. Results indicated that majority of the children had moderate level of moral judgement and emotional stability. Significant mean differences were found in analogies, best moral answer and definition aspects of moral judgement as per gender, emotional stability as per residential area and school status of children and home environment aspects as per gender. Positive and significant correlation existed between aspect of moral judgement and emotional stability of children. Emotional stability of children was significantly associated with aspect of moral judgement. viz; analogies. The moral judgement of children was associated with personal and socio-economic variables viz; class and school status of children.
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