Moral Judgment Measured by the DIT Test in Secondary School Pupils (in relation to the variables of sex, age and religious faith)

The study presents the finding of measurement of moral judgment using the Defining Issues Test 1 (DIT1) developed by J. Rest (1979) among selected secondary-school pupils (N=203), and focused on determining the effects of demographic indicators (sex, age and religious faith). The subjects (95%) showed a conventional level of moral judgment in line with Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. The study supports the idea that regardless of sex, preference for a post-conventional moral standard rises with the maturing of personality and its cognitive structures. The study also looks at the limitations of the DIT1 Test itself.