A Study of Moral Behavior of University Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62997/rl.2024.31037Keywords:
Clean Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Sustainable Development, Global Health, Human RightsAbstract
The aim of the study was to explore the moral behavior of university students. The study was quantitative in nature, and the survey method was used for data collection. The population for this study consisted of all graduate and undergraduate students (1500) of Lahore Leads University. The sample consisted of 320 Lahore Leads University undergraduate and graduate students who were chosen at random. A self-developed questionnaire was used to collect the data. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. The first part consisted of demographic variables, and the second part consisted of students' moral behavior. SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) was used to analyze the data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data. In inferential statistics, independent samples t-test and One-way ANOVA were used to find out the significant differences among demographic variables.
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