This study was conducted to explore the relationship of adolescents' religiosity and morality and the moderating effects and differences in their background variables.
The questionnaires to measure religiosity, morality, and peer conformity were administered to 730secondary school students.
The research findings are as follows. First, the morality of adolescents who lived together with
their parents was higher than that of those who did not live with their parents. Second, the religion of their mother affected the children's religion. There were significant differences of adolescents' morality among the parental discipline styles. If the parental discipline style was based on permissive explanation, the adolescents' morality was higher than the style was repeating or authoritative. Third, the more the fathers academic attainments, the higher the children's morality. Fourth, there was no significant difference in adolescents' religiosity between boys and girls. However, there was significant difference in their morality. Especially, girls' morality in 'common rule and law’ and 'humanity' was higher than that of boys. Fifth, there was a significant moderating effect in religiosity and morality in relation to adolescents' gender.
Further research with more in-depth interview and longitudinal survey is needed to explore richer data on adolescents' religious and moral development.