Moral Judgment and its Relationship with Quality of Life for Students of Faculty of Education at Kuwait University in the Light of Some Demographic Variables

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Special Needs Teacher in State of Kuwait

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The current study aimed to reveal the relationship between moral judgment and quality of life among university students in the light of some demographic variables. The study sample consisted of (325) university students from the first and fourth years in literary and scientific disciplines, their ages ranged between (18-23) years, with an average age of (18.87) years and a standard deviation of (1.870), with (126) males and (199) females. The study used the scale of moral judgment for university student (prepared by: Bedaiwy, 2016) and the scale of quality of life for university students (prepared by: the researcher). The results indicated that there is a statistically significant correlation at the level of significance (0.01) between the degrees of university students on the scale of moral judgment and their degrees on the scale of quality of life, and that moral judgment can be predicted by knowing the score on the scale of quality of life; As the quality of life explained (60.1%) of the total variation in the performance of university students on the moral judgment scale. The results also revealed that there were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.001) between the mean scores of university students on the moral judgment scale and its sub-factors due to the gender difference (male, female) in favor of female students. There were also statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.001) between the mean scores of university students on the total score of the quality of life scale, due to the gender difference (male, female) in favor of female students.

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