Moral judgments on a relativistic-realistic dimension of two groups of adolescents were measured. One hundred Israeli- and 100 Soviet-educated adolescents who had recently arrived in Israel were given a specially designed instrument—the Morality Shifting in Adolescence Questionnaire. Soviet-educated adolescents were significantly more realistically oriented in their moral judgment than the Israelis. It was also found that, in both groups, girls were more realistically oriented than boys. The proposed explanation related these differences to the different socialization processes in the two countries.
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