A Study to Investigate the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Moral Judgement

The current research was undertaken to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and Moral Judgment among students. The study sample consisted of 81 students and the datawere collected from 3 different schools (i.e. Asif Public School, House of Secondary Education and Al-Ameen Public School Rawalpindi). The sample consisted of students of ages 13 to 18 years. Self-esteem Scale of Raffia(1999), comprising 29 items, was used to measure self-esteem while the Urdu version of Padua Moral Judgment scale, originally developed by Anna L. ( Communion & Uwe P. Gielen 2001), was used to measure moral judgment. Padua Moral Judgment Scale was a 28 items objective test grouped in four parts.

Eleven social values are assessed in the scale including contract, affiliation, life, property, law and legal justice. It was hypothesized that high levels of self-esteem result in high levels of moral judgment but results of the present research showed that higher stages of moral judgment are not related with High Self-esteem.

Key Words: Self Esteem, Moral judgment