Abstract:

Having two steps, this research aims is to do an introductory research about how moral conflict is conceptualized in a sample from Turkey. It was seen that above %80 of the respondents shared some conflicts as important moral issues. Although all these themes are mentioned as important moral conflicts, their frequency of living mentioned by the %71 of the respondents was as "never lived". Some conflicts derived from the previous step were not seen as moral conflicts in this second step by the respondents. Some moral issues which were seen as more important than the others were differentiated in terms of age, gender and education. Then items of the inventory were categorized in terms of their thematic similarities. These categories are cheating on, work ethics, money related problems, violence, justice, reactions to behaviors which were thought as wrong, honesty, intervention to privacy and ending a relationship. A conflict and a frequency of living score were computed by adding responses of respondents to every item. High and significant correlations were found between these categories. The correlations between conftlict scores and living scores were negative and significant. Men mentioned cheating on as significantly less important than women. Graduates and university students see themes of ending relationships as less important than secondary school graduates. In terms of intervention to privacy, women had significantly higher scores than men. Keywords: Morality, Moral Conflicts, Turkey

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