d to a statistically significant extent with standard DIT scores for the sample of 524 male subjects (t = 5.096, p<.001). As the quantitative relationship between subject socioeconomic status and standard DIT score is positive, it may be stated that the level of moral development rises as a subject's socioeconomic status rises. No information was developed to indicate how relationships between standard DIT scores and age, education, and socioeconomic status were affected by the specific law enforcement career fields represented in the sample (quantitative analyses of the relationships between standard DIT scores and age, education, and socioeconomic status, when controlled by career field among the 424 subjects in the law enforcement sub sample were not performed).
The research hypothesis was supported only with respect to the relationship between moral development and subject age, wherein no statistically significant relationship was found to exist between the two variables. The research hypothesis was not supported with respect to the relationships between moral development and both education and socioeconomic status, wherein statistically significant relationships were found to exist in each instance. Moral Development and Career Choice
Research question number two investigated the relationship between moral development and career choice with respect to male law enforcement officers. Career choice was equated with subject standard scores on each of the factors in the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. It was hypothesized that moral development would not be found to be significantly associated with any of the personality factors measured in relation to career choice.
For the sub sample of 424 males subjects representing the law enforcement career fields in the sample of 524 subjects, standard DIT scores were compared with standard scores for each of the components of the Sixteen Personality Factors Test. Standard...