The Investigation of Moral Judgement Competence of High School Students in Terms of Parental Attitudes

The purpose of this study is to examine the moral judgment competence of students attending to high school in terms of parental attitudes. The participants of the study consist of 447 students. The data was collected by using Moral Judgment Test of Lind, Parental Attitude Scale and Personal Information Form. The Data was analysed with t test, one way ANOVA and Tukey as a posthoc test. In the study, moral judgment scores of students did not differ significantly according to the parental attitude. Moral judgment scores of students attending to science and anatolian high school were significantly higher than attending to the vocational high school. The students whose parents had a university education, scored higher than parents had an elementary education. Moral judgment scores of students did not differ significantly according to their perceived economic level