Journal of Teacher Education and Research

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

Moral Judgment as Related to Family Environment of Students at Elementary Level

Assistant Professor, Institute of Educational Technology and Vocational Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, Email id: kalpanathakur3220@rediffmail.com

Abstract

The present article attempts to study the relationship between moral judgment and family environment of elementary school students. The study is descriptive in nature and was conducted on 200 elementary students from four schools (two government and two private) of Chandigarh. The major findings were: (i) students of private schools exhibited high moral judgment ability than students of government schools, (ii) male and female students exhibited comparable moral judgment ability and (iii) the correlation between moral judgment and family environment of elementary students was found to be positive but not significant.

Keywords

Moral judgment, Family environment