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Akan, Yunus; Tatik, Ramazan Samil – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between the moral maturity and human values of university students. The study was a quantitative research and was conducted with the correlational survey model. The study group of the study consisted of 764 students selected by simple random sampling method, one of the random sampling methods…
Descriptors: Ethics, Maturity (Individuals), College Students, Values
Solmaz, Dilek Yaliz – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the human values as a predictor of moral maturity of teacher candidates. The research group consists of 139 teacher candidates. "The Human Values Scale" and "The Moral Maturity Scale" are used as the data collection tool in the study. In the data analysis, "mean, standard deviation,…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Measures (Individuals)
Mitchell, Joshua J.; Reason, Robert D.; Hemer, Kevin M.; Finley, Ashley – Journal of College and Character, 2016
This study explored whether three broad areas promoted students' mental health: perceptions of the climate related to civic learning, experiences on campus, and civic engagement. Campus climates for civic learning including the development of ethical and moral reasoning and the importance of contributing to community were the strongest predictors…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Environment, Predictor Variables, Student Experience
Parker, Eugene T., III; Barnhardt, Cassie L.; Pascarella, Ernest T.; McCowin, Jarvis A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
We utilized data from a multi-institutional longitudinal study to investigate the association between diversity-related coursework and moral development among students over 4 years of college. Our findings parallel the prior research, which support the positive effects of diversity on college students, by offering new evidence that diversity…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Multicultural Education, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Experience
Bowman, Nicholas A.; Trolian, Teniell L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
Many higher education studies have examined linear relationships between student experiences and outcomes, but this assumption may be questionable. In two notable examples previous research that assumed a linear relationship reached different substantive conclusions and implications than did research that explored non-linear associations among the…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies, Correlation
Mayhew, Matthew J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of institutional type on the moral reasoning development of 1,469 first-year students. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to account for students nested within institutions. Moral reasoning gains were related to, but not dependent upon, institutional type, with students at liberal arts…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Moral Development, College Freshmen, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Phillips, Franklin Hadley, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many students will choose to join a fraternity or sorority in college, yet much is still unknown about how these organizations impact student moral development. Using a correlational research design, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the intensity of involvement of undergraduate students in social Greek…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sororities, Moral Development, Multiple Regression Analysis
Sullivan, Ethan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a business ethics course on the cognitive moral reasoning of freshmen business students. The sample consisted of 268 college students enrolled in a required business ethics course. The students took Rest's Defining Issues Test--Version 2 (DIT2) as a pre-test and then post-test (upon…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Class Size, Predictor Variables, Active Learning
Oja, Sharon Nodie; Graham, Suzanne E.; Andrew, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to investigate how moral development changes over time for teacher education master's students during their year-long internship. Data on the Defining Issues Test-2 was collected at three points in time during the full-year teaching internships (beginning, end of first semester, and end of second semester). These…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Narvaez, Darcia; Gleason, Tracy – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2007
Moral text processing was used as an ecologically valid method for assessing implicit and explicit moral understanding and development. The authors tested undergraduates, seminarians, and graduate students in political science and philosophy for recall of moral narratives and moral expository texts. Multivariate analyses of covariance using…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Political Science, Predictor Variables
Wilhelm, William J. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2004
A series of initiatives over the last fifteen years have helped forge today's consensus on the need to clarify and clearly communicate standards of behavior (National Skills Standards Board (NSSB), 1996). These initiatives have generated considerable discourse and subsequent research dealing with morals and ethics. This study focuses on academic,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Moral Development, College Students