摘要：A developmentally constrained progression exists in moral development whereby conditioned behavior precedes explicit thought; and through social learning that takes place in adolescence, thoughts and behaviors become associated with emotions. This produces socially appropriate behaviors with relatively little cognitive influence. The present study is an attempt to understand the moral judgment of high school children within a city. A student data base was prepared from 10 schools within the city and 207 students randomly selected from the source list. They belonged to co educational as well as unisex schools. After obtaining their informed consent, the Moral Judgment Test was administered on small student groups within a period of 3 weeks. Findings show that scores on moral judgment were well within normal cut offs. On using the two sample’s t test no significant gender difference was found. This implies that girls and boys have reasonably good moral judgment abilities with no marked variation.
