TITLE:
Quality of Moral Judgement in the Nigerian Police Force: Assessing the Mediating Influences of Level of Education and Gender
AUTHORS:
Tobias Obiora Ozor, Chiedozie Okechukwu Okafor
KEYWORDS:
Gender, Education, Ethics, Moral Judgment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.5 No.2,
February
11,
2015
ABSTRACT: The study investigated gender and level of education as factors in quality of moral judgement among the Nigerian Police Force. A total of 167 participants comprising eighty-one (81) males and eighty-six (86) females of the Nigerian Police were drawn from Central Police Station (C.P.S), Uwani, and State CID Head Quarters, all in Enugu State. A 28 items ethical moral self inventory was administered to them to measure their quality of moral judgment. A cross-sectional survey design was used, while a 2-way ANOVA Statistics was applied to analyze the data. The findings revealed no significant influence of the two independent variables (gender and level of education). Gender: F(1,163) = .02 at p p p