Finnish Teachers’ Ethical Sensitivity

Table 3

Teaching career stage-related differences in ethical sensitivity.

Dimension	Practicing 𝑀 (SD) (𝑛=522)	Student 𝑀 (SD) (𝑛=342)	Levene’s test 𝑝	𝑡(𝑝)	𝜂^2
(1) Reading and expressing emotions	3.7 (0.6)	3.6 (0.7)	.007	−2.306 (.021)	0.01
(2) Taking the perspectives of others	4.2 (0.5)	4.1 (0.5)	.974	−2.578 (.010)	0.01
(3) Caring by connecting to others	4.2 (0.5)	4.2 (0.5)	.413	.007 (.994)
(4) Working with interpersonal and group differences	4.0 (0.5)	4.0 (0.6)	.113	−1.509 (.132)
(5) Preventing social bias	3.9 (0.5)	3.8 (0.6)	.327	−1.741 (.082)
(6) Generating interpretations and options	4.0 (0.5)	4.1 (0.5)	.728	.732 (.465)
(7) Identifying the consequences of actions and options	3.7 (0.6)	3.6 (0.6)	.869	−.750 (.454)

Effect sizes (𝜂²) were calculated with the formula (𝑡²)/(𝑡²+(𝑛₁+𝑛₂−2)).