An investigation of the effects of childhood traumas on adolescents' moral development abilities

In most of the people exposed to childhood traumas, behaviors such as social closeness, high level of anxiety, introversion, low self-esteem, anger, lack of confidence are observed. The relationship between these situations observed as a result of the trauma and the moral development abilities is our study subject. Childhood traumas were intended to be assessed within the scope of the moral developmental period of Kohlberg, which we can characterize as the most comprehensive study in the field of moral development according to the trauma types. With a total of 267 students currently studying at Kocaeli University, Istanbul Aydin University and Marmara University were tested using the questionnaire test and childhood scale within the scope of the study. Emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse will be detected in the childhood trauma scale. Kohlberg grouped them at three different levels: pre-tradition, traditional and post-tradition. 1. Obedience and punishment orientation 2.Instrumental objective orientation, 3. Good child tendency 4. Law and order orientation, 5. Social contract orientation 6. Universal moral principles orientation. He identifies the stages of moral development of people in a total of 6 stages. The reason for this study is that studies conducted on the concept of morality are few and it is thought that the moral development and childhood traumas are both related to each other. Data entry of the research is still ongoing. Once the data is complete, they will be added to the presentation.