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A Study on the Moral Judgment of Pre-Adolescent Students


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1 Unity PG College, Raigir, Telangana, India
 

The most serious problems that our teenagers facing today are use of drug, alcohol, teenage pregnancy, suicide, rape and robbery; we see that most of the teenagers are involved in one or the other activities that are immoral. The modern education system is concentrating more on cognitive abilities of the child,making himmore mechanical rather than good human being with a number of good qualities at head and heart. This paper examined the Moral Judgment of Pre-adolescent students; an empirical study was conducted on a sample of 80 pre-adolescent students. Moral Judgment test (MJT) was used to measure the Moral Judgment of the students.The findings of the study revealed that the ability of Moral Judgment among the pre-adolescent students is average, with 40 percentile.

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Moral, Morality, Moral Judgment, Pre-Adolescents, Academic Achievement.
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M. Suvarna Saritha
Unity PG College, Raigir, Telangana, India

Abstract


The most serious problems that our teenagers facing today are use of drug, alcohol, teenage pregnancy, suicide, rape and robbery; we see that most of the teenagers are involved in one or the other activities that are immoral. The modern education system is concentrating more on cognitive abilities of the child,making himmore mechanical rather than good human being with a number of good qualities at head and heart. This paper examined the Moral Judgment of Pre-adolescent students; an empirical study was conducted on a sample of 80 pre-adolescent students. Moral Judgment test (MJT) was used to measure the Moral Judgment of the students.The findings of the study revealed that the ability of Moral Judgment among the pre-adolescent students is average, with 40 percentile.

Keywords


Moral, Morality, Moral Judgment, Pre-Adolescents, Academic Achievement.

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