Kohlberg’s Stager of Moral Reasoning in The Context of Intelligence and Socio Economic Status of High School Students

Abstract

Education is a powerful tool for the cultivation of values among students. At every stage, in any system of education, character development is regarded as one of the important aim of education. There are various psychological approaches to moral development. One of the most important approach is cognitive development approach by Kohlberg (1966), which concentrates largely on individual moral judgement that is the reason behind the judgement they make. This study was to investigate the impact of Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning on intelligence and socio-economic status of high school students. The data of present study was analyzed by 't' test and co-efficient of correlation. It was found that public school students significantly differ in moral reasoning ability than the Govt. school students. Positive relationship between moral reasoning and intelligence was obtained.