SDCA Journal of Psychology

Abstract

Morality has always been a controversial topic ever since. With the complexity and eccentric background of the said subject matter, lies different study about it. Moral competence is a combination of knowledge, experience, and the specialized abilities possess by an individual in order to solve moral dilemma and come up with an ethical decision (Nurhanis & Khalid, 2015). This study explores the moral competence of the selected SASE and SHSP first year students and associates it with the dominant decision-making style they are using. The sample consisted of selected 148 first year students specifically from the department of SASE and SHSP. The participants answered the General Decision-Making Style Instrument and Moral Competence Test. With rigorous investigation, the results showed that majority of the participants obtained low moral competence and students with high to very high moral competence are the least in frequency. Meanwhile, rational style is the dominant decision-making style of the participants. Moreover, the study gathered a chi-square statistic of 14.020 and a p-value of .597 which is greater than the critical alpha level of 0.05 which, therefore, concludes that there is no significant relationship between the moral competence and decision-making style of the respondents.

Keywords: Moral competence, decision making style, correlation.