The main purpose of my master's thesis was to determine whether we can influence the moral judgement of elementary school students through a moral story. In addition, we wanted to find out what and where the difference are in the moral judgement of girls and boys. In the end, we were also interested in whether there is a correlation between these morally observed variables, and how strong these connections are. The study included 44 children. Of these 44 participant, 22 were boys and 22 girls, aged 8 to 9 years. The research took place in the center of school and extracurricular activites in Gorenjska region of Slovenia. We performed two measurments at 3-day intervals. In the measurements, we used a questionnaire that measured moral decision-making, moral identity, moral emotions, goal orientations, and situations that occur at school, among firends, in family and in sports. During these 3 days students listened to a moral lesson that is a part of a preventative anti-doping program for elementary schools. Then the elementary school students solved the same questionnaire again.
We found that the story had positive effects as differences in moral judgement between the first and second measurements were reveald. We also found that there are differences in moral judgement between boys and girls at the first and second measurements, and that there is a correlation between the observed variables.
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