Developing Moral Reason Through Personal Guidance

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of personal guidance in developing students' moral reasoning. To this end, a quasi-experimental study with non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was applied. The data were collected using a moral reasoning questionnaire that consisted of three aspects, compliance, truth, and justice. The samples of the study were 66 8th-grade students of SMP N 2 Ciledug, recruited using purposive sampling technique. The result showed that personal guidance was effective in developing students' moral reasoning skill. The result of this study can be used as a basis to consider the development of guidance and counseling services, particularly personal guidance, for improving adolescents' moral reasoning skill.