A case study on ethical awareness of students in secondary school / Nurul Mardhiyah Husin and Yasmin Filza Zulkefli

The ethical awareness among the secondary students in Malaysia is of paramount importance. There are numerous cases where the students act
unethically and the statistics stated that worrying number of students is behaving unethically. There are quite number of students who are involved in this kind of behavior and this is not a small issue. The secondary students had chosen as respondents in order to help researcher to investigate relating unethical behavior among them because the unethical behavior is the trends that usually happen among students. The unethically behavior among students in Malaysia can be classified like bully, violence, truancy and so on. Such cases of school bully have been witnessed all over the world. Bullying is one of these problem unethical behaviors that concerns students, educators and parents because of its potential detriment to the students' well-being (Haynie et al., 2001).