Abstract
A cognitivist E. Turiel distinguishes among three domains of human decision making: namely personal, moral and conventional.
Keeping that in mind, the career choice of high school graduates seems to rank primarily among the personal decision making process. However, it is apparent that the other two domains also affect the target group's career choice, playing a considerable role throughout its process.
The primary goal of this study is two-fold, namely to answer the question of how moral reasoning affects the career choice process and how morality as such can be found in this three domains. The study primarily presents a qualitative analysis of interviews with high school graduates.
As it turned out, throughout the decision making process students did not deal with classical moral dilemmas in terms of traditional concepts of morality. It was, therefore, necessary to extend the cognitivist theory of morality by, among others, the notion of self-responsibility.