INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORAL JUDGMENT AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS AMONG EARLY ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the relationship between Moral Judgment and Behavioral Problems among Early Adolescents. The study was correlational in nature and 200 sample comprising of 100 (males) and 100 (females) of age range 12/13-15 were taken from Azad Jammu Kashmir district sudhnoti. Two measures (Comunian, 2004) and (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1991) were used. The present study was designed to find out the relationship between the level of Moral Judgment and Behavioral Problems among early adolescents. The main purpose was to determine the correlation between Behavioral problems and moral judgment.  The study might be helpful for the adolescence and for their caregiver. Additionally, it gave information for the parents of adolescence to control poor moral judgment and behavioral problems they suffer. Furthermore it provided useful information regarding way to build a positive outlook on life and knowing the importance of believing the potentials and abilities among adolescence. It’s also beneficial for youth in this way that it may definitely give awareness about them as how to minimize behavioral problems and poor moral judgment and how to behave according to society.