摘要：This study was aim to examine both human values and moral maturity of adolescence within gender and age variables and the relationship between human values and moral maturity in adolescence. The study was conducted with 341 adolescences[N=108 (32%) male, 233’ü (68%) female] attending to Agrı high schools in 2011 -2012 school year in and their age ranged from 13 to 18. All adolescences were chosen in this study randomly. In this study The Moral Maturity Scale (Dilmaç, 2007) and The Human Values Scale (Selçuk ve Kaya, 2008) were used. As a result of the study it was found that female adolescences got significantly higher score than male adolescences in human values and in moral maturity level (p<.05). Moreover adolescences with 16-18 age got significantly higher score than adolescences with 13-15 age (p<.01). In this study it was also found that all gender were at Kohlberg conventional moral level. Moreover human values and its sub constructs are significantly correlated with moral maturity and five sub construct except forbearance explain 24 % variance of moral maturity (p<.01). The findings of this research were discussed in the light of the literature and some recommendations and suggestions were presented for the further research.
