Abstract
This research was carried out as Study-1 and Study-2. In both studies, it was aimed to examine the factors that form the foundations of high school students' moral perception. In Study-1, data were collected with the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. In Study-1, high school students saw the concepts of Harm/Care, Fairness, Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity related to morality and formed their judgments on social life basing on these foundations. In addition, it was observed that women got significantly higher scores than men in harm/care and fairness sub-factors. In Study-2, the moral perceptions of high school students were examined with open-ended questionnaire questions. According to the analysis of the results of the answers to open-ended questions, high school students highlighted the fields of social morality and sexual morality. Apart from these two areas, they also touched upon the areas of violent morality and individual morality. Thus, four areas of morality were identified in Study-2. In addition, it was observed that women in social morality and men in violent morality came to the fore negatively. In sexual morality, moral problems of women came to the fore in some codes and moral problems of men came to the fore in some codes. As a general result, it was seen in both studies that the foundations of high school students' moral perceptions were built on similar moral foundations.
Highlights
The concept of morality has affects on the thoughts of many scientists who were interested in human and religious sciences
It was seen in both studies that the foundations of high school students' moral perceptions were built on similar moral foundations
Since the five factor and two factor models are frequently discussed in the literature, the fit indices values of the five factor model and two factor model were compared in this study
Summary
The concept of morality has affects on the thoughts of many scientists who were interested in human and religious sciences. This situation is understood when looking at the long historical evolution of Morals. In the field of religion and philosophy, this evolution is seen more clearly. In this long historical process, different perspectives on what Morality is have been presented. Morality is expressed in different words in different languages. The diversity of the meaning of Morality and the concepts it frames is more than using different names of morality in different languages; it is rather a serious discussion and research adventure
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