A Comparison of Ethical Evaluations of Frequent and Infrequent Church Attenders

Abstract This paper reports the results of a pilot study of differences in ethical evaluations of business related issues between frequent and infrequent church attenders. Data were collected from 137 U.S. business students. Significant differences were found in seven of the thirty situations between infrequent and frequent church attenders. Of the seven significant differences, frequent attenders had the more ethically conservative position four times, while infrequent attenders had three more ethically conservative answers. In general, the frequent church attenders had the mote conservative ethical positions nineteen times, and infrequent attenders had the more ethical choices eleven times.