The development of moral thinking among university students

Mahdi AlTayar, Nawal

	The development of moral thinking among university students
Philosophy Journal
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 13, 2018, Pages 125-152
Author
Nawal Mahdi AlTayar
Abstract
The lack of moral side largely responsible for the suffering of our students at the university today of problems, where can attributed a lot of the problems that affecting our students as a moral problems at its core, as the manifestation of negligence and laxity, corruption, exploitation and deviations in adolescents, but is all reflect the moral crisis and the lack of moral growth. Side is the moral subject in the personal structure of the process of growth, like that of the other personality aspects and this strong practical drink Child regime moral of the group in which it arises, for this, the many scientists confirmed on this side as necessary to build the individual's personality through his ability to moral reasoning to pattern their behavior It is the most important theorists who focused on their theory on the growth of moral thinking in phase entering the university is theorist of Kohlberg interpreted through the third phase of life that stretches from (18 and older) years. This research aims to measure the growth of moral thinking among university students level, and know the difference at this level among university students according to gender and the phase of the university. In order to achieve this, the researcher building measure, which consists of four phases as indicated by Kohlberg It (obligation to the community, the maintenance of law, social contract, moral principles or human) as it contained every phase after extracting the validity and reliability of Items (10) choices, so that each Items contains four choices, and asks the students to determine the order of favorable than through the development of a character (a) phase has the most favorable and (b) for the second phase of his favorite, and so on to the last preference. The study sample was from (150) students of the university students were divided evenly (75) students from males, and (75) a student of females, the rate of (37) students from the first phase, and (38 ) students from the second phase, and (37) students of the third phase, and (38) a student of the fourth phase. After application of the sample on the scale and get a researcher on the results, the introduction of the data obtained in the statistical software (SPSS) and thereafter showed the following results: - • The sample suffer from weak growth in moral reasoning compared to an Average hypothetical on the scale. • There is no effect of sex and university phase in the level of moral reasoning.

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