Moral Values Among Primary School Children

Abstract

Today, there is a lot of degradation of values. People run after material wealth and want to make money through immoral means. Moral values give meaning and purpose to our lives. They play a supreme role in the making of the individual as well as the nation. The present study attempts to analyze the moral values of elementary school students about gender and residential background. The present study aimed to know the moral values among primary school children. It also aimed to check moral values with reference to type of school and gender. The Moral Value Scale (MVS) by Dr. Alpana Sen Gupta & Dr. Arun Kumar Singh (2016) was used. The sample constituted total 120 primary school children out of which 60 were from municipal primary school (30 boys and 30 girls) and 60 from granted primary school (30 boys and 30 girls). The data was collected from Ahmedabad District. The data was scored, analyzed as per the manual. ‘F’ test was being calculated. The result showed that 1. There is no significant difference in the mean score of moral values among the municipal and granted primary school children, 2. The boys primary school children group is having more moral values than girls primary school children group and 3. There is no significant difference in the interactive effect of the mean scores of moral values with regards to the type of school and gender.