The Impact of Gender Role and Personality on Moral Orientation

This study examines the discriminators of moral orientation in term of Masculinity and Femininity (gender role), age, the education level and the personality traits, in an investigation of their contribution in the overall process of moral decision making. The sample of study consisted on (N=300) undergraduates students of various business institutes of Pakistan. Participants were connected through the questionnaires, of which 172 were returned and processed. The finding of the study suggests that personality characteristics of judging and intuition are more strongly related with justice orientation. Moreover, the perceiving and sensing characteristics were more strongly related with care orientation while the gender role (Masculinity and femininity) was having a very less contribution in the overall analysis. Further, the results showed that moral orientation is less differentiated by gender roles but strongly differentiated by the characteristics of the personality, and age, education variables were seen as moderate contributors in the analysis.