| This research consists of a large scale inquiry into religious and moral attitudes of Dutch students. For this matter, a questionnaire is administered to a sample of 974 students attending Catholic schools with pre-university (VWO) and/or pre-college (HAVO)programmes. The aim of this research is twofold. First, to get a more profound insight into the structure of both the moral and religious consciousness of these students and, secondly,to investigate whether and how both the moral and religious consciousness are related to one another. In view of the first aim, new measuring instruments are developed on the basis of substantial theological and moral-philosophical theories, which makes it possible to look for relevant correlations between different religious variables as well as between different moral variables. In view of the second aim, special attention is paid to statistically significant and theoretically relevant differences between the moral consciousness of religious student and non-religious students. |
