Effect of Secular Attitude and Openness to Experience on Ethical Behaviour among College Students

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of Secular Attitude and Openness to Experience on Ethical behaviour among college students. With the help of a random sampling technique data from 200 undergraduate students between the age of 18 to 22 years, from different colleges of Agra were collected on the variables ‘Secular Attitude’, ‘Ethical Value Scale’ and ‘Openness to experience’. For Data Analysis Two-way ANOVA was used. The results indicated a significant effect of Secular Attitude on the Ethical Behaviour of the students (F= 7.12, p<0.01 level). Students with high Secular Attitude (M= 70.14) display more Ethical behaviour in comparison to the students with low Secular Attitude (M=59.45). A significant effect of Openness to Experience on the Ethical behaviour of the students (F =74.40, p<0.01) is also observed. Students with high Openness to Experience (M=74.38) display Ethical behaviour more than the students with low Openness to Experience (M=55.21). No significant effect of Secular Attitude and Openness to Experience on Ethical behaviour (F=1.04, p>0.05) was observed.