The mediating role of social skills in the relationship between the development of moral judgement and responsibility of secondary high school students in Shiraz

Subject Areas : Education

Masoud Moazeni ¹ , hojjatollah fani ²

1 - ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSIYY
2 - ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSIYY

Received: 2022-07-15 Accepted : 2022-12-26 Published : 2024-03-20

Keywords: social skills, responsibility, Development of moral judgment,

Abstract :

Introduction and goal: The purpose of this study was to mediate the role of social skills in the relationship between the development of moral judgment and student responsibility.

Methodology: The purpose of this research was applied and it’s method were correlational. The statistical population of the study included third year high school students in Shiraz. In order to determine the sample size, 150 people were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method, which was assessed through the distribution of the California Accountability Questionnaire(1987), Matson et al.'s Social Skills Questionnaire(1983), and the Sinha and Varma Ethical Judgment Development Questionnaire(1988). The collected data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. At the level of descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation and at the level of inferential statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and simple linear regression analysis and hierarchical regression by Baron and Kenny method(1986) were used.

Findings: Social skills can be directly predicted by moral judgments; Accountability can be predicted by moral judgments in a positive way; Responsibility can be predicted by social skills in a positive way. Social skills play a significant mediating role in the relationship between ethical judgment and responsibility. Conclusion: The resulting results indicate the fact that moral judgment is influenced by mental states; So that moral judgment is an important element in the progress and excellence of students. It is suggested that school’s officials and teachers think of measures to increase this category in students to increase responsibility.