A Study of the Relationship between Moral Judgment and Religious Attitude of Algerian University Students

A Cross-Sectional Examination of Levels of Moral Reasoning in a Sample of Kuwait University Faculty Members

“…This finding is also consistent with results found in a related study dealing with similar issues (Bouhmama, 1984) and is in line with Lawrence's study (1987) of radically fundamentalist seminarians who stated that they were responding to the DIT not in terms of human intuitions about fairness, but in terms of being faithful to divine revelation. Richards and Davison (1992) contended that findings such as those yielded in this study rely more on divine law for moral decision making than on justice as measured within the Kohlbergian framework.…”

“…Thus, these results seem to correlate well with the published research on Muslim samples obtained in countries such as Algeria (Bouhmama, 1988(Bouhmama, , 1990, Saudi Arabia, (Ismail, 1976), and Pakistan, (Maqsud, 1977).…”

“…These findings related to stage four are also congruent with similar studies conducted on Muslim university students using the Defining Issues test (DIT), as stage four was the highest stage obtained in those studies. Those participants also made lower principled answers than they did conventional answers (Bouhmama, 1990;Ismail, 1976).…”

“…Although a growing body of cross-cultural research, using the Defining Issues Test (DIT), has been conducted in a variety of non-Western societies to test the universality claims of Kohlberg, only a moderate amount of that cross-cultural research has been attempted in Muslim societies (Bouhmama, 1984(Bouhmama, , 1990Gielen, Ahmed, & Avellani, 1992;Ismail, 1976;Maqsud, 1977). Prior research on faculty members using this measure has been largely confined to Western countries (Johnston, 1989;Johnston & Lubomudrov, 1987;Maccalum, 1993;Yeazell & Johnston, 1988).…”

Level of Moral Development of First-Year Medical Students: A Study at a Medical College in Pakistan

“…Cross-cultural studies conducted by Kohlberg in 1974 concluded that religious variables were not related to the level of moral development of Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics, and Protestants (Kohlberg 1974;. Research carried out in Algeria also found that there is no significant relationship between religious belief and development of moral reasoning (Bouhmama 1990). In addition, studies by Kohlberg (1971) and Piaget (1932) have observed that the level of moral development of a person increases with age as long as the learning process of the individual continues.…”