The findings of the present investigation is that creative stimulation, cognitive
encouragement and permissiveness as dimensions of school environment are
significantly and positively correlated with moral reasoning.
The results of the present investigational so indicate that accepting mind-set of parents
has apositive effecton the development of moral reasoning young sters as the
group of young sters with parents having high accepting mind-set were found to be better
on moral reasoning as compared to not so well accepted group of subjects.Atthetheoretical
backdrop it appears to be quite trueas the development of the child cognitive or moral has a
direct relation ship with the mind-set of the parents.Them or eaccepting behaviour of parents
helps in the nurturance of moral reasoning among their wards because acceptance as such is a
considerate behaviour and it directly promotes moral behaviour.Morality implies putting
one self in to others shoes and there fore it promotes consideration for others which is an
essential component of morality. Parents can bring about certain desirable changes in child’s
behaviour only when they show a kind of belonging ness, care, acceptance and concern for
thechild.Itsonlyparents’deepembeddednesswiththechildrenthattheycanhelpthechild
developintoahumanebeingwithoutwhicheducationwillberelegatedtomereliteracy.
Even social psychologists hold that child develops behavior desirable
or undesirable by imitating the behaviour of‘significant others’.So
when the child feels that his/her parents are considerate towards him, the child also
internalizes the same through imitation.
7. Conclusion
Creative stimulation, cognitive encouragement, permissiveness and acceptance as
dimensions of school environment were found to be significantly and positively
correlated with moral reasoning among youngsters, whereas rejection has been found
to be negatively correlated with moral reasoning. When different types of parental
mind-sets were studied in the context of moral reasoning among youngsters, the
accepting mind-set on the part of parents was found to have a positive significant effect
on the development of moral reasoning among the subjects, whereas concentrating
mind-set of parent s was found to have no effect on such development and avoiding
mind-set of parents was found to have negative effect on the development of moral
reasoning among youngsters.