STUDY OF MORAL JUDGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO HOME ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The moral judgement is the judgement which deals with moral values or quality of action. It is the judgement of value and evaluates the rightness or wrongness of our action. The capacity to make decisions and judgements which are moral based on internal principles and to act in accordance with such judgements. It is an evaluation of the actions and character of a person made with respect to social norms. Home is the place where an individual starts his life. There is a vital contribution of home background in the growth and development of social, emotional, motor, perceptual and cognitive aspects of the individual. Home Environment refers to all the objects, forces and conditions in the home which influence the child physically, intellectually and emotionally. Home environment varies in many aspects such as the parent’s level of education, economic status, occupational status, religious background, attitudes, values, interests, parent’s expectation for their children and family size among others. Children coming from different home environments are affected differently by such variations. Moral Judgement is the essentials of all round development of personality of the secondary school students. It is a matter of great concern for both teachers and the family members that it is possible to uplift judgment based on the moral basis of the youth generation. So it becomes essential to study the moral judgment of secondary school students with respect to their home environment. The objectives of the present study “Study of Moral Judgement of secondary school students in relation to home environment” is to study the difference in moral judgement of secondary school students with respect to gender (male and female), to study the difference in moral judgement of secondary school students with respect to type of school (government and private), to study the difference in moral judgement of secondary school students with respect to area (rural and urban), to study the difference in home environment of secondary school students with respect to gender (male and female), to study the difference in home environment of secondary school students with respect to type of school (government and private) , to study the difference in home environment of secondary school students with respect to type of area (rural and urban) and to study the relationship between moral judgement and the home environment of secondary school students. The study is quantitative in nature and the sample consists of 200 secondary school students (100 males and 100 females) randomly selected from 4 government and 4 private schools of Jammu. In xii this study, standardized tools namely Moral Judgement Scale (MJS) developed by Gupta(2015) and Home Environment Inventory (HEI) developed by Misra (2012). Mean, S.D., t-Test and Pearson’s Correlation of Coefficient have been employed for analyzing the data. It is found that there is no gender differences in moral judgement among secondary school students However, significant differences in moral judgement among secondary school students with respect to type of school (government and private) and type of area (rural and urban) was found. Also no significant difference found in home environment with respect to gender (male and female) and type of area (rural and urban) exists between gender and residential background in elementary school students with moral values as dependent variable but significant difference in home environment with respect to type of school (government and private). The results also indicated that the secondary school students have positive significant relationship between moral judgement and home environment. Keywords: Moral Judgement, Home Environment, Secondary School Students etc.