Influence of home and school settings on moral judgment of pre-adolescent children: a study in Uttarakhand
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2019-07
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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With the advancement of technology, communication, and modernization, the individuals today have become more subjective about their ideas of how they define an act as moral or immoral. The present generation views morality as subjective perception of an individual rather than it being objective. This makes their perspective more challenging when seen along with the societal standards of just or unjust. The basic virtues that strengthen the relationships such as trust, integrity, love, and brotherhood are fading away with time. Pre adolescent children have the ability to differentiate between moral obligations, social norms, and personal moral choices and children at this age can take more circumstances, alternatives and possibilities into account when thinking about the ramifications of their behavior. One reason for deterioration of morality is that many children lack the self-discipline to resist their temptations, and their raging hormones overpower their ethics. The present research study was carried out exclusively in two districts of Uttarakhand viz., Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital. Keeping in mind the stated objectives, a total sample of 200 pre-adolescent children was taken as respondents for the present study. Self structured socio-demographic and socio-economic profile Questionnaire was used to collect basic background information about the respondents
under study. Home Environment Questionnaire (Self structured) and School Environment Questionnaire (Self structured) were used to study home and school environment settings of the respondents. Moral Judgment Scale (Sinha and Verma, 1992) was used to study moral judgment of pre-adolescent children. The home environment setting of pre-adolescent children of government schools were found to be significantly lower than the home environment setting of pre-adolescent children of private schools in ambience domain. The school environment setting of pre-adolescent children of private schools was found to be significantly higher than the school environment setting of pre-adolescent children of government schools in discipline domain. Significant correlation was found between moral judgment of pre-adolescents and their home environment setting. No significant correlation was found between moral judgment of pre-adolescent children and their school environment setting. Home environment setting (independent variable) explains about 16 % of the variation in moral judgment (dependent variable) of pre-adolescent children.
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